On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:52:34 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 March 2015 at 07:51, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
I’ve long wished that the OS had it’s own virtual environment. A lot of problems seems to come from trying to cram the things the OS wants with the things that the user wants into the same namespace.
I'm more wanting to go in the other direction and suggest to folks that if they're not *scripting the OS*, then the system Python isn't what they want, and they should be using at least a virtual environment,
So that defeats the whole point of having a system distribution. I don't have any stakes in Debian / RedHat etc., but that sounds a little bit ridiculous to me ;-) On the other hand, perhaps it would allow ditching any requests to keep code compatible with old versions such as 2.6. Regards Antoine.