2012/1/16 Lennart Regebro :

2012/1/16 Christian Ştefănescu :

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Also, if this works just fine, wouldn't it make sense to make Distribute the default for virtualenv at some point?

In my opinion, yes.

FWIW you can also set VIRTUALENV_USE_DISTRIBUTE=1 in your environment. Or, in the latest version of virtualenv I think it's just VIRTUALENV_DISTRIBUTE. You can also set it in a config file now; I forget the details but it's explained in the virtualenv docs.