Section manually split into dedicated topic on Windows installer
Regarding this meaning of user space, doesn’t Users/Public count? Software going there or especially C:/Program Files doesn’t sound out of the question. I’m ignorant of the exact drawbacks and when it matters more, though, is it about security? I recall similar discussions about installing CPython on Windows.
Not sure if you’re implying this exactly, but PackageCompiler issues wouldn’t and shouldn’t be mentioned in the release notes of its dependencies, including base Julia. Independent developments are responsible for public communication in their own release notes or probably somewhere more immediate for a regression caused by a dependency instead of their own release. We don’t want a world where updating 1 package of interest demands re-reading something for each and every dependency.