[Distutils] PEX at Twitter (re: PEX - Twitter's multi-platform executable archive format for Python)

[Vinay Sajip]

On Sat, 1/2/14, Noah Kantrowitz <noah at coderanger.net> wrote:

> Junctions on Windows are actually more flexible than POSIX symlinks,
> and I have in fact used them for Python packages before when doing
> Django dev on Windows XP.

Why do you say they're more flexible? They work as directories/mount
points and AFAIK you can't use them for files. Plus, what Paul said about
the elevation issues (not a factor for XP, I know, but would need to be
taken into account for any solution across multiple Windows versions).

Regards,

Vinay Sajip