<div><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Friday, March 23, 2012 at 11:39 AM, PJ Eby wrote:</span></div>
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Even if you are using tools that don't use distutils' configuration settings for these directories, why not simply fix those tools so that they do?
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</div><div>Thats what I do currently - I set things to bin and patch Python and the tools so that they work.</div><div><br></div><div>However, have considered this to be a little bit of a wart anyway for a long time - even before I adopted my current method of working - because it is a pointless inconsistency.</div><div><br></div><div>The fact that it makes virtual environments consistent across platforms, together with pyvenv going into 3.3, gave me enough of a push to elevate this from private annoyance to "should fix."</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Van</div>