On 14 November 2017 at 10:02, Nathaniel Smith njs@pobox.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Paul Moore p.f.moore@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 November 2017 at 03:08, Nathaniel Smith njs@pobox.com wrote:
On Nov 13, 2017 6:47 PM, "Nick Coghlan" ncoghlan@gmail.com wrote:
and a pip.bat with the equivalent contents on Windows? (Bonus: maybe this would fix the problem with upgrading pip on Windows?)
Depending on how the batch file was written, I think the answer to that is "maybe": https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2888976/how-to-make-bat-file-delete-it-s...
Sigh.
Batch files are not suitable for this task. The wrappers have to be executables. See http://paul-moores-notes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrappers.html for a detailed analysis I did some time ago.
Ah, interesting. My reason for suggesting it in the first place because I was hoping to avoid paying the process spawn overhead twice, but it sounds like this specific trick is misguided all around :-).
It doesn't even save the process overhead if you're running Powershell as your main shell, or running pip from a terminal window in your editor/IDE, ...
I really wish Windows *did* provide a usable "shell script" implementation (of any form) but sadly it simply doesn't.
Paul