[Python-ideas] Draft PEP for virtualenv in the stdlib

[Ethan Furman]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> The repeated references to copying binaries and Python files
> throughout the PEP is annoying, and needs to be justified. Python 3.2+
> supports symlinking on Windows Vista and above as well as on *nix
> systems, so there needs to be a short section somewhere explaining why
> symlinks are not an adequate lightweight solution (pointing out the
> fact that creating symlinks on Windows often requires administrator
> privileges would be sufficient justification for me).

Windows Vista?!?  Death first!  ;)

My machines are still using XP -- is that sufficient justification for 
copying?

~Ethan~