PEP 405 vs 370

[Christian Heimes]

Am 25.05.2012 21:45, schrieb Damjan Georgievski:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405/
> 
> I don't get what PEP 405 (Python Virtual Environments) brings vs what we
> already had in PEP 370 since Python 2.6.

My PEP 370 is about installing additional packages as an unprivileged
user and for the current user. It's a simplistic approach that just adds
one more site-package directory in the user's home directory.

PEP 405 is a different beast. It adds support for isolated environment
that don't share state with the site wide installation. A user can have
multiple virtual envs and install different sets of packages in each env.

Christian