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Author christian.heimes
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, draghuram, loewis, mhammond
Date 2008-01-18.08:07:24
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Mark Hammond wrote:
> I'm not sure why the approach of "load-em-all" is being taken. 
> Interestingly, SHGetFolderPathW is listed as deprecated, so I doubt that
> list will grow too much, but the implementation as specified prevents
> the user from using other facilities available via the API (ie, what if
> they *do* want it verified?  What if they want to specify
> CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE?)
> 
> That said though, I don't object to the patch as it stands, and agree it
> will meet the requirements of the majority of people who need a "known
> path" on Windows.

Indeed, the patch targets the most basic requirements. I wanted to
implement a simple and straight solution without implementing a complex
API or adding about 30 new constants to a module. Users with extend
needs should use your pywin32 package. I don't feel like rewriting your
package here. ;)
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2008-01-18 08:07:33christian.heimessetspambayes_score: 0.0109083 -> 0.010908299
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