On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, at 07:16 PM, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote: > in order to elevate those issues i would like to propose a new > installation layout, > where instead of storing each distribution in every python all > distributions would share a storage, and each individual environment > would only have references to the packages that where > "installed/activated" for them
This is also essentially what conda does - the references being in the form of hard links. The mechanism has some drawbacks of its own - like if a file somehow gets modified, it's harder to fix it, because removing the environment no longer removes the files. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
