[Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

[ssteinerX@gmail.com]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>> I'm going to cross-post this to the distutils list as well.  If the  
>> idea is
>> to stabilize Distribute, get some tests in place, etc. then this  
>> method of
>> distribution  (running 2to3 in situ, as it were) is not the correct  
>> way to
>> do it from a "shipping the tested product" perspective.
>
> I don't agree with that statement.

This is not analogous to running a C compiler, it's analogous to  
running a pre-processor maybe, but the fact that the distribution  
doesn't run the tests on the exact code delivered in the package gives  
me agita.

S