[Python-Dev] Submitting PEP 453 (pip bootstrapping) for pronouncement (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 20:26:23 CEST 2013

On 13 October 2013 13:43, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Accordingly, in addition to adding the option to extract and install pip during installation, this PEP proposes that the Windows installer (and sysconfig) in Python 3.4 and later be updated to:

- install scripts to PythonXY\bin rather than PythonXY\Tools\Scripts - add PythonXY\bin to the Windows PATH (in addition to PythonXY) when the PATH modification option is enabled during installation

Then implication of this is that venv (and virtualenv, but that's less relevant to python-dev) should be updated to use a "bin" directory on Windows rather than the current "Scripts" directory. This would only be for 3.4, which means that virtualenv will need to make the directory name conditional on version, I guess.

Paul.

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