On 21 Jul 2022, at 16:42, Christopher Barker <pythonchb@gmail.com> wrote:I still am dumbfounded that this wasn’t platform I dependent in the first place, but you know what essay about hindsight.However, I’m no Windows expert, but I *think* the modern Windows file system(s?) support something like symlinks. It’s an under-the-hood feature, but maybe it’s possible to add a symlink for bin.
Maybe I’m wrong, and/or it’s not possible on all file systems Python needs to support, in which case *nix systems do support linking, so we could support “Scripts” on all systems.
Just a thought.-CHB--On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 8:26 AM Simão Afonso <simao.afonso@powertools-tech.com> wrote:On 2022-07-21 17:04:16, Svein Seldal wrote:
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/bob/main/src/pip/_internal/locations/_distutils.py#L145-L148
This actually works great! If the "Scripts" folder does not exist, it
uses "bin".
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/main/src/pip/_internal/utils/entrypoints.py#L48
This is a just a small patch anyway.
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