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

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/25/2011 4:28 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Yeah, I realised I don't actually mind if things get copied around on
> Windows - it's the POSIX systems where implicit copying would bother
> me, and that goes to the heart of a longstanding difference in
> packaging philosophy between the two platforms :)

I have a different issue with copying. I have a new Win7 system with a 
solid state disk for programs (that usually sit unchanged months or 
years at a time). It is nice and fast, but has a finite write-cycle 
lifetime. So unnecessary copies are not nice. I presume venv could be 
told to copy onto the data disk, but then everything runs slower.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy