windows custom install directory
See original GitHub issueI could not find a way to have the installer choose another install path (or let the user choose an alternative) other than the default C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApp
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(hope I did not miss anything obvious)
As this would require elevated permissions, that the actual application does not need, I would love to be able to make it installable without them, so the tool gets adopted more easily. Maybe @andrewleech has a hint here? Thank you in advance! I tried messing with briefcase.wxs TARGETDIR or the setup.py options dir but was not successful.
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thank you so much for your work and the notify, @tmontes ! 🙂 will try to dig out that project from back then and see if I can get it to work, to hopefully close this issue.
I’m going to close this in preference for #382; while complete customisability of the install location is probably possible, in practice “user vs system” is the only real option that is needed for most cases (at least, as I understand it).