[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143832] New: Can not generate pycache (.pyc) files on Windows as non-admin accounts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143832

            Bug ID: 143832
           Summary: Can not generate pycache (.pyc) files on Windows as
                    non-admin accounts
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.0.6.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: Installation
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: ming.v.hua at qq.com
            Blocks: 127593

Description:
It seems that the way current Windows MSI installer is set up, if LibreOffice
is installed by an admin account to the default place (C:\Program
Files\LibreOffice), a non-admin account can use the application perfectly fine,
including Python scripting features, but the bundled Python can not generate
the .pyc pycache files because the non-admin account doesn't have write
permission for C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program directory.

Presumably this will cause LibreOffice compiling to bytecode each time Python
is used, and affect performance for heavy Python-scripting users.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install LibreOffice on Windows using the MSI installer, either from an
account with admin privileges, or from an ordinary account and provide password
for admin when asked.  Use the default installation directory "C:\Program
Files\LibreOffice", but anywhere else that ordinary users don't have write
access should also be OK.

2. Do NOT start LibreOffice from the admin account.

3. Start LibreOffice from the ordinary non-admin account, run some Python
sample macros that came with the installation.  Optionally one can also try
some Python commands and macros from command line using the bundled Python.

4. Observe that no matter how Python is used, the directory supposed to store
pycache files "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\__pycache__" and
"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-<version>\lib\__pycache__"
are not created, and the .pyc files are not generated.

Expected result:
Generate pycache files for non-admin account, somewhere in user profile, maybe?
 Or alternatively the installation process can generate them as admin account?

Additional Information:
This is hard to test with parallel installation, so I only get this for my main
7.0.6 installation:
Version: 7.0.6.2 (x64)
Build ID: 144abb84a525d8e30c9dbbefa69cbbf2d8d4ae3b
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: zh-CN (zh_CN); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
...but I don't think this has changed for 7.2 or master.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127593
[Bug 127593] [META] Python Macro bugs
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