On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Brett Cannon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brett@python.org">brett@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Is this email meant to simply point out the existence of pythonv, or<br>
to start a conversation about whether something should be tweaked in<br>
Python so as to make pythonv/virtualenv easier to implement/use?<br></blockquote><div><br>Both? I have felt guilty for not following up on what Larry did, so this is my other-people-should-think-about-this-too email.<br>
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If it's the latter then let's have the conversation! This was brought<br>
up at the PyCon US 2010 language summit and the consensus was that<br>
modifying Python to make something like virtualenv or pythonv easier<br>
to implement is completely acceptable and something worth doing.<br></blockquote><div><br>OK, sure! Mostly it's about changing site.py. The pythonv executable is itself very simple, just a shim to make #! easier. For Windows it would have to be different (maybe similar to Setuptools' cmd.exe), but... I think it's possible, and I'd just hope some Windows people would explore what specifically is needed.<br>
<br>virtualenv has another feature, which isn't part of pythonv and needn't be part of Python, which is to bootstrap installation tools.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Ian Bicking | <a href="http://blog.ianbicking.org">http://blog.ianbicking.org</a><br>