[Python-ideas] Draft PEP for virtualenv in the stdlib

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:46:00 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's justification for supporting it, not necessarily for doing it
>> implicitly (although Windows in general is far more tolerant of
>> bundling than the various *nix platforms).
>
> Isn't it enough to share the Python DLL? The small Python executable
> can be copied around.

Yeah, I realised I don't actually mind if things get copied around on
Windows - it's the POSIX systems where implicit copying would bother
me, and that goes to the heart of a longstanding difference in
packaging philosophy between the two platforms :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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