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Allow detecting Dev Drive on Windows #104803

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zooba opened this issue May 23, 2023 · 0 comments
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Allow detecting Dev Drive on Windows #104803

zooba opened this issue May 23, 2023 · 0 comments
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zooba commented May 23, 2023

Windows just announced a new Dev Drive feature, optimised for high I/O scenarios such as build and test. It also works as a very clear signal that the user is a developer and is doing developer-like tasks.

We should add a function to allow querying whether a specific path is on a Dev Drive. The API is relatively low level, and cannot currently be used from Python, but would allow Python apps to detect when the user is operating on a Dev Drive (e.g. installing or compiling something on one), or choose or offer a more performant temporary or cache location than the user directory.

(For a variety of mostly compatibility reasons, there's no way for Windows to redirect %TEMP% onto a Dev Drive, but apps that are aware of it can do it for themselves.)

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…ath is on a Windows Dev Drive (pythonGH-104805)

(cherry picked from commit bfd20d2)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
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… on a Windows Dev Drive (GH-104805)

(cherry picked from commit bfd20d2)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
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