[Python-ideas] About PEP-582

[Joni Orponen]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:49 AM Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:29 PM Philip Bergen via Python-ideas <
> python-ideas at python.org> wrote:
>
>> First attempt at this, so please be gentle. :)
>> I am very interested in the overall goal of not needing virtualenvs, but
>> I'm curious about the motivations behind pep-582.
>>
>
> In a word, simplicity. Teaching newcomers about virtual environments is a
> stumbling block, but so if when they accidentally pollute their global
> installation when they get started.PEP 582 is an attempt to handle the
> simple case nicely.
>

Is Buildout forgotten? It's not dead and achieves the same in this regard.
It works by flushing out meaningfully-shebanged wrapper scripts with
exactly injected sys.path.

http://docs.buildout.org/en/latest/

-- 
Joni Orponen
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