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Issue
When installing the git package on a Windows machine, a Windows shortcut is added (using menuinst). This shortcut is hardcoded to install to a folder called "Anaconda${PY_VER} ${PLATFORM}". This is really annoying when a user is using miniconda, or any custom distribution (i.e. some company made their own distribution using constructor). The menuinst package provides a $DISTRIBUTION_NAME variable, which can be used instead. This will neatly group the git windows shortcut into the same Start Menu folder as the rest of the shortcuts created in that distribution.
The proposed change is to update the menu-windows.json file as:
Solution to issue cannot be found in the documentation.
Issue
When installing the git package on a Windows machine, a Windows shortcut is added (using menuinst). This shortcut is hardcoded to install to a folder called
"Anaconda${PY_VER} ${PLATFORM}"
. This is really annoying when a user is using miniconda, or any custom distribution (i.e. some company made their own distribution usingconstructor
). The menuinst package provides a$DISTRIBUTION_NAME
variable, which can be used instead. This will neatly group the git windows shortcut into the same Start Menu folder as the rest of the shortcuts created in that distribution.The proposed change is to update the
menu-windows.json
file as:As an example of a feedstock that uses this, see spyder
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