PEP 405 vs 370

[Damjan Georgievski]

>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405/
>>
>> I don't get what PEP 405 (Python Virtual Environments) brings vs what we
>> already had in PEP 370 since Python 2.6.
>>
>> Obviously 405 has a tool to create virtual environments, but that's
>> trivial for PEP 370 [1], and has support for isolation from the
>> system-wide site patch which could've been added in addition to PEP 370.
>>
>> So maybe I'm missing something?

 > My PEP 370 is about installing additional packages as an unprivileged
 > user and for the current user. It's a simplistic approach that just
 > adds one more site-package directory in the user's home directory.

well you can have and activate several different directories (venvs) 
with PYTHONUSERBASE. I do use that very nicely, and haven't seen any 
problems with that.


 > PEP 405 is a different beast. It adds support for isolated environment
 > that don't share state with the site wide installation. A user can
 > have multiple virtual envs and install different sets of packages in
 > each env.

Wouldn't it be easier to just add isolation to 370?
Again, you can have multiple virtual envs with 370 too.


ps.
sorry for the late response, it seems my NNTP server doesn't relay all 
messages. I might need to switch.

-- 
damjan