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

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 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?

It's justification for supporting it, not necessarily for doing it
implicitly (although Windows in general is far more tolerant of
bundling than the various *nix platforms).

Cheers,
Nick.

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