[Python-Dev] PEP 405 (pyvenv) and system Python upgrades

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat May 5 12:40:05 CEST 2012


Hi,

On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:49:03 -0600
Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
> 
> 3) Symlink the interpreter rather than copying. I include this here for 
> the sake of completeness, but it's already been rejected due to 
> significant problems on older Windows' and OS X.

Perhaps symlinking could be used at least on symlinks-friendly OSes?
I expect older Windows to disappear one day :-) So the only left
outlier would be OS X.

Regards

Antoine.




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