[issue38583] The activate script in Windows is not correct for venvs created in git-bash

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

I agree this would be better, though it may not be that easy to do.

If you're running Windows Python from WSL, then your "bash style" path should be "/mnt/c/some/path", not "/c/some/path". So the answer isn't as simple as .replace('\\', '/').

I did some quick testing with posixpath and pathlib and neither has an obvious conversion from a Windows path to a POSIX path, though pathlib.PurePosixPath(pathlib.PureWindowsPath(p)) comes closest.

Perhaps the best approach here is to improve `activate` to determine its path when run, like we did for `activate.ps1`? Then we don't need to substitute the path in at creation time.

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versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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