[Python-Dev] PEP 405 (pyvenv) and system Python upgrades (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat May 5 12:40:05 CEST 2012

Hi,

On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:49:03 -0600 Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:

3) Symlink the interpreter rather than copying. I include this here for the sake of completeness, but it's already been rejected due to significant problems on older Windows' and OS X.

Perhaps symlinking could be used at least on symlinks-friendly OSes? I expect older Windows to disappear one day :-) So the only left outlier would be OS X.

Regards

Antoine.

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