Make user scripts directory versioned on Windows

[pfmoore]

BPO	23437
Nosy	@pfmoore, @tjguk, @jkloth, @zware, @zooba
Files	userscripts.patch

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GitHub fields:

assignee = 'https://github.com/zooba'
closed_at = <Date 2015-02-14.17:53:05.517>
created_at = <Date 2015-02-10.20:46:26.259>
labels = ['type-feature', 'OS-windows']
title = 'Make user scripts directory versioned on Windows'
updated_at = <Date 2015-02-14.20:10:25.814>
user = 'https://github.com/pfmoore'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2015-02-14.20:10:25.814>
actor = 'paul.moore'
assignee = 'steve.dower'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2015-02-14.17:53:05.517>
closer = 'python-dev'
components = ['Windows']
creation = <Date 2015-02-10.20:46:26.259>
creator = 'paul.moore'
dependencies = []
files = ['38085']
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issue_num = 23437
keywords = ['patch', 'needs review']
message_count = 10.0
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nosy_names = ['paul.moore', 'tim.golden', 'jkloth', 'python-dev', 'zach.ware', 'steve.dower']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue23437'
versions = ['Python 3.5']

[pfmoore]

Patch to make the user scripts directory on Windows %APPDATA%\Python\PythonXY\Scripts rather than %APPDATA%\Python\Scripts.

See the thread "PEP-370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows" (Feb 10 2015) on python-dev for discussion, but essentially this is to ensure that different Python versions cannot overwrite each others' package scripts when packages are installed into the user site directory.

Not tested, as I don't yet have Visual Studio 2015 installed. I'll try to obtain and install it when I get the chance.

[zooba]

You should be able to apply the patch to 3.5.0a1 and test it that way easily enough. Other than the doc changes, it's just .py files. (Building 3.5 with earlier VS versions is also okay right now.)

[pfmoore]

Cool, I've just run the tests by manually patching a 3.5a0 install. No extra failures, so things look fine. (Interestingly, before patching, test_site "altered the execution environment" but afterwards it didn't - it just succeeded. I don't know if that means anything, but I'm inclined not to worry as it definitely didn't fail.)

[zooba]

How do pip & co. handle the change? I assume they just look in sysconfig and don't think too much about the path...

[pfmoore]

Sorry, yes pip just installs into %APPDATA%\Python\Python35\Scripts with no issues.

[python-dev]

New changeset add998f98e31 by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Closes bpo-23437: Make user scripts directory versioned on Windows (patch by pmoore)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/add998f98e31

[zware]

This one could use a NEWS entry, and possibly what's new as well.

[python-dev]

New changeset a2217106ca5e by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-23437: Update NEWS and whatsnew/3.5
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a2217106ca5e

[zooba]

Thanks. I always forget about those.

[pfmoore]

Sorry, I should probably have added them to the patch in the first place :-)