[Distutils] PEP 453 - virtualenv change to Scripts/bin directory

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 08:33:59 CEST 2013


On 15 October 2013 23:44, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, as a result of (3) existing wininst installers will not install
>> correctly on Python 3.4+ (they'll put their scripts in "Scripts"
>> still). So projects will need to distribute separate installers for
>> Python <= 3.3 and 3.4+ if they contain scripts. (This problem goes
>> away in the long term if everyone switches to wheels, of course).
>
> The installer compatibility issue is enough to convince me to drop the
> directory name change from PEP 453.

Cool. Thanks for your patience over this, and my apologies that it
took me so long to pin down the key part of my discomfort with the
proposal.
Paul


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