[Python-Dev] Proposal for virtualenv functionality in Python (original) (raw)

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sat Feb 20 17:06:04 CET 2010


Christian Heimes wrote:

As long as Python supports XP we shouldn't use symlinks on Windows for stuff like virtualenv. The python.exe on Windows is small (just a few kb) since it is linked against the dll. Let's copy it and we are on the safe side.

+1. Even if we dropped XP I'm not sure moving to symlinks for this would be the right thing to do.

Eric.



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