[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #1074: get rid of tahoe.exe launcher

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#1074: get rid of tahoe.exe launcher
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     Reporter:  zooko      |       Owner:  zooko                                         
         Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                                           
     Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  1.8β                                          
    Component:  packaging  |     Version:  1.6.1                                         
   Resolution:             |    Keywords:  windows win64 setuptools unicode review-needed
Launchpad Bug:             |  
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Comment (by davidsarah):

 This ticket introduced some newly written code that calls Windows APIs
 from Python, which is tricky and error-prone:

  * [source:src/allmydata/windows/fixups.py], which sets up Unicode output
 streams and retrieves Unicode command-line arguments.
  * [source:setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg/setuptools/command/scriptsetup.py],
 which changes the registry in order to add ".pyscript" and ".pyw" to the
 PATHEXT environment variable and associate ".pyscript" with the Python
 interpreter.

 Ideally these would be reviewed by someone familiar with Python on
 Windows.

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