[Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Oct 30 23:59:44 CET 2011

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis pitrou.net> writes:

> > It would be even simpler not to process it at all, but install the > scripts as-is (without the execute bit) :) > Sure, but such an approach makes it difficult to provide a mechanism which is easily extensible; for example, with the current approach, it is straightforward for third party tools to either easily replace completely, update selectively or augment simply the scripts provided by base classes.

I don't understand why a zip file makes this easier (especially the "update selectively" part).

Regards

Antoine.

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