[Python-Dev] Status of the built-in virtualenv functionality in 3.3

Brian Curtin brian.curtin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 17:06:17 CEST 2011


On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 09:12, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> Oh, let’s not forget naming.  We can’t reuse the module name virtualenv
> as it would shadow the third-party module name, and I’m not fond of
> “virtualize”: it brings OS-level virtualization to my mind, not isolated
> Python environments.

How about we just drop the "virtual" part of the name and make it "env"?

(or something non-virtual)


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