<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Barry Warsaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Well, I have to be honest, I've *always* thought "nest" would be a good choice</div>
for a feature like this, but years ago (IIRC) PJE wanted to reserve that term<br>
for something else, which I'm not sure ever happened.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, it was pretty much for this exact purpose -- i.e. it was the idea of a virtual environment. Ian just implemented it first, with some different ideas about configuration and activation. Since this is basically the replacement for that, I don't have any objection to using the term here. (In my vision, "nest" was also the name of a package management tool for creating such nests and manipulating their contents, though.)</div>
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