Just to be clear, by “not as easy as just going to the windows store” I meant that installing juliaup from the windows store might be easier than installing Python and then jill.py. I’m surprised to learn that it’s worse than I thought, that Python is so hard to install on windows. I just saw that even Microsost recommends Python on WSL as the preferred method! This is a long way from the old days, when they dismissed Linux as an unsecure, buggy, communist plot (for real). I guess that conditioning on a user wanting to install Julia increases the probability that the user already has Python installed. Notwithstanding, I’m hearing that the answer to “how often Julia is installed in a python-less system” is “likely pretty often”. In any case, I think exploring calling out to juliaup (as it improves) from Python tools such as find_julia is a good idea.
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