[Distutils] [venv] question about future pip capabilities

[Carl Meyer]

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Ian Bicking wrote:
> A shorter time commitment is to download pip and run the tests on
> Windows and report problems, as it's unfortunately quite possible
> we've introduced Windows regressions.

I did a bit of work on getting pip tests running under Windows last
spring, but didn't get very far. There were many test failures, most of
them seemingly superficial: posix-specific assumptions about file
locations and path separators in the tests themselves, not necessarily
broken functionality in pip (though it's hard to say for sure with
broken tests). Fixing those issues isn't hard, just tedious. I don't
know what deeper issues or regressions might be uncovered once the tests
run.

Carl
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