On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:26:07 -0400
Terry Reedy
On 10/25/2011 4:28 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Yeah, I realised I don't actually mind if things get copied around on Windows - it's the POSIX systems where implicit copying would bother me, and that goes to the heart of a longstanding difference in packaging philosophy between the two platforms :)
I have a different issue with copying. I have a new Win7 system with a solid state disk for programs (that usually sit unchanged months or years at a time). It is nice and fast, but has a finite write-cycle lifetime. So unnecessary copies are not nice.
Uh, please do not throw around arguments like that without backing them up with concrete numbers. In practice, your SSD will have amply enough write-cycles for venv to work fine. And if it doesn't, you've simply been swindled. Regards Antoine.