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

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Oct 25, 2011, at 07:21 PM, Carl Meyer wrote:

>As it currently stands, this is really just the/a _prefix_ under which
>site-packages is found (parallel to how sys.prefix is currently used).
>Which means "site-packages" vs "dist-packages" is still determined in
>site.py, which tacks platform-specific paths onto the end of the prefix
>in order to find the actual site-packages directory. So in the Debian
>case, you'd still have to modify your distributed site.py (and take a
>bit of care, assisted by the tests, that you don't break venv.py in the
>process); I don't think this PEP really changes that much.
>
>(Though the fact that not breaking virtual environments when you make
>distro-specific modifications to site.py becomes your responsibility as
>the distro Python maintainer rather than mine as virtualenv maintainer
>is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest advantages of this PEP <wink>)

Yes, fair enough! :)

- -Barry
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