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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Oct 30 13:28:37 CET 2011

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> We already have Unix shell scripts and BAT files in the source tree. Is > it really complicated to maintain these additional shell scripts? Is > there a lot of code in them? No, they're pretty small: wc -l gives 76 posix/activate (Bash script, contains deactivate() function) 31 nt/activate.bat 17 nt/deactivate.bat The question is whether we should stop at that, or whether there should be support for tcsh, fish etc. such as virtualenv provides.

I don't think we need additional support for more or less obscure shells. Also, if posix/activate is sufficiently well written (don't ask me how :-)), it should presumably be compatible with all Unix shells?

Regards

Antoine.

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