[Distutils] PEP 453 - virtualenv change to Scripts/bin directory

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 Oct 2013 08:17, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15 October 2013 22:33, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's only there because MvL didn't really want to add the existing
Scripts
> > directory to PATH.
>
> Sorry to bang on about this, but do you mean PythonXY\Scripts (which
> doesn't exist at install time and hence I can see why adding it to
> PATH could be an issue) or PythonXY\Tools\Scripts (which isn't used by
> pip/distutils/setuptools, so adding it wouldn't put pip.exe on PATH
> anyway)?
>
> There are two parts to this proposal:
>
> 1. Use bin instead of Scripts (which means changing sysconfig and
> possibly distutils or 3rd party tools that hard code the name rather
> than using sysconfig).

The intended change is just this bit.

> 2. Expose Tools/Scripts by putting the code that's currently there into
bin.

This part is just a mistake in the PEP, which I will fix (that stuff
doesn't generally get installed at all under *nix, and I didn't realise it
used a different directory than pip does on Windows)

It was previously pointed out that this part was ambiguous, but I forgot to
go back and figure out the difference between the two. Thanks for spelling
it out for me :)

Cheers,
Nick.

> I'm -0 on the first of these, and -1 on the second. I see the scripts
> in Tools/Scripts as a mixture of examples and optional utilities. If I
> follow the makefile, they aren't installed by default on Unix, they
> are part of the scriptinstall target. In the Windows installer they
> are an optional install ("Utility Scripts") that currently are
> installed but not on PATH by default.
>
> Anyway, I'm the only one arguing here and I've said my piece, so I'll
> leave it now.
>
> As for virtualenv:
>
> 1. I'll implement the change once PEP 453 is accepted and there's a
> patch for CPython implementing it (so that I can confirm any
> subtleties of behaviour) assuming no-one wants to do it before then.
> 2. I'll assume that if there's no response on this thread, that
> virtualenv users won't have issues with this change.
>
> Paul
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