[Python-Dev] venv scripts for fish and csh shells

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sun Jul 22 18:50:24 CEST 2012


On 07/22/2012 06:10 PM, Andrew Svetlov wrote:
> Georg, sorry, I've committed it before you answered.

After you wrote that you'd wait three days...  anyway, I can't find the
commit in the repository, so that's fine.

> If you want, I will revert it back.
> But, please, describe me why those scripts are to late for 3.3?
> I strongly checked correctness of both activation script for fish and
> csh/tsch shells.
> Works fine.

"Works fine" is not good enough.  There are hundreds of potential patches
on the tracker implementing new features of which the same could be said.

> It's not *new feature*, it is just extending support to csh and fish shells.

That is a new feature in my view.  If it was an important feature, someone
would have thought of it while features were allowed.

> Virtualenv (base for venv) already contains this activation scripts.
> I just converted those files to venv with replacing virtualenv
> specific environment variables to schema supported by venv.
> I see nothing bad for adding to venv support for fish and csh as well
> as already supported bash/zsh
> 
> Say again, I triple checked correctness of added scripts. With
> defining VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT as well as without it.
> My addition is safe, trivial, correct and it is not new feature — just
> fixing of missing support for widely used shells.
> 
> Anyway.
> You are Release Manager — the main person for 3.3 release.
> If you feel what my changes is potentially dangerous and should be
> removed from 3.3 — I'll do it.
> But, please, do benevolent.

The point of feature freeze is that there are no new features.  Where
can I draw the line, when everybody argues like that and I agree?

Georg



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