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On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
Is this email meant to simply point out the existence of pythonv, or
to start a conversation about whether something should be tweaked in
Python so as to make pythonv/virtualenv easier to implement/use?
Both? I have felt guilty for not following up on what Larry did, so this is my other-people-should-think-about-this-too email.
If it's the latter then let's have the conversation! This was brought
up at the PyCon US 2010 language summit and the consensus was that
modifying Python to make something like virtualenv or pythonv easier
to implement is completely acceptable and something worth doing.
OK, sure! Mostly it's about changing site.py. The pythonv executable is itself very simple, just a shim to make #! easier. For Windows it would have to be different (maybe similar to Setuptools' cmd.exe), but... I think it's possible, and I'd just hope some Windows people would explore what specifically is needed.
virtualenv has another feature, which isn't part of pythonv and needn't be part of Python, which is to bootstrap installation tools.
Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org