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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:26:07 -0400
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Uh, please do not throw around arguments like that without backing
them up with concrete numbers.
In practice, your SSD will have amply enough write-cycles for venv to
work fine. And if it doesn't, you've simply been swindled.

Regards

Antoine.