[Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Fri Nov 10 07:08:21 EST 2006


Previously Chris Withers wrote:
> Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> >Hi Christian(s)!
> >
> >I know most people dislike <Program Files>. I do too! But it's the
> >closest we have to a 'standard' place for installing applications.
> 
> It's not the 'standard'. To name a few examples, all of Python, Lotus 
> Notes and, perhaps most tellingly, IIS and Microsoft's other server 
> offerings, don't install themselves in Program Files, they create their 
> own top level directory.

For their data, not for their binaries & libraries.

Wichert.

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