Issue428978

classification
Title: Windows installer default directory
Type: Severity: normal
Components: Installer Versions:
Milestone:
process
Status: closed Resolution: works for me
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Assigned To: pedronis Nosy List: jerryvos, pedronis, willemb
Priority: low Keywords:

Created on 2001-05-31.12:40:49 by willemb, last changed 2006-05-05.17:44:53 by jerryvos.

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msg317 (view) Author: Willem Broekema (willemb) Date: 2001-05-31.12:40:49
The default install directory in the Windows installer currently is the Windows directory, in my case 'C:\WIN98':

 C:\WIN98\jython-2.0
 C:\WIN98\jython-2.1a1

That should be the program files directory, in my case 'C:\PROGRAM FILES\', as that's where the program files belong:

 C:\PROGRAM FILES\jython-2.0
 C:\PROGRAM FILES\jython-2.1a1
msg318 (view) Author: Samuele Pedroni (pedronis) Date: 2001-05-31.12:58:47
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Sorry, this is more a flaw than a bug.

> That should be the program files directory, in my case
'C:\PROGRAM FILES\'
The name of this dir is localized and there is no pure java
way to get at that
name, so we use user.home (which under the single user OS
Win98 is , guess
what)

OTOH under Win NT/2000 the default is little bit more
meaningful (at least for a personal inst) and matches also
the unix case.
msg319 (view) Author: Jerry Vos (jerryvos) Date: 2006-05-05.17:44:53
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As of today the default install location for programs under
windows (windows XP) is still the program files directory. 
As such it would be nice if that is where the installer
defaulted to installing jython.

I would say that under a windows install this should default
to the Program Files directory instead of where it does now.
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