On 03/17/2011 10:59 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Mar 17, 2011, at 08:07 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
Whatever mechanism we end up with, I suggest that a standard python install include an isolated configuration. This is a common use case and should be available without having to create a virtualenv (or whatever) for each project or working directory.
Could you elaborate on what this means? I don't quite understand what you mean by "include an isolated configuration".
I'm also not entirely clear what this means, but I think perhaps "python -S" already covers it? That will start up a python interpreter without importing site.py, so it will have no site-packages at all; nothing but the stdlib. Of course, then you'd have to take care of fixing up sys.path yourself to include your project and its dependencies: this may be reasonable for buildout.
I do think that Python should include a script to create the small amount of set up needed to trigger a (built-in) virtual environment. E.g. create the bin and lib/... directories, populate bin, and drop a minimal pythonv.conf file.
Definitely. It looks like this'll end up being the bulk of the added code; I'm planning to do it (borrowing liberally from virtualenv.py) as soon as I'm confident of the basic approach.
Any opinions on the commandline UI for this? I was thinking of just adding a "pythonv.py" to the stdlib that you could execute with "python -m pythonv path/to/new/env" (and would also export appropriate API to create environments programmatically).
Carl