[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32 (Rationale part 1: Regularizing the layout)

[PJ Eby]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:

> No disagreement here. I think virtualenv's sweet spot is as a convenient
> tool for development environments (used in virtualenvwrapper fashion,
> where the file structure of the virtualenv itself is hidden away and you
> never see it at all). I think it's fine to deploy _into_ a virtualenv,
> if you find that convenient too (though I think there are real
> advantages to deploying just a big ball of code with no need for
> installers). But I see little reason to make virtualenvs relocatable or
> sharable across platforms. I don't think virtualenvs as on on-disk file
> structure make a good distribution/deployment mechanism at all.
>
> IOW, I hijacked this thread (sorry) to respond to a specific denigration
> of the value of virtualenv that I disagree with. I don't care about
> making virtualenvs consistent across platforms.
>

Well, if you're the virtualenv maintainer (or at least the PEP author), and
you're basically shooting down the principal rationale for reorganizing the
Windows directory layout, then it's not really much of a hijack - it's
pretty darn central to the thread!
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