[Distutils] Re: Adopting virtualenv package maintenance

2018-09-06 Thread Wes Turner
"What is the difference between venv, pyvenv, pyenv, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, pipenv, etc?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41573587/what-is-the-difference-between-venv-pyvenv-pyenv-virtualenv-virtualenvwrappe virtualenvwrapper still depends on virtualenv, AFAIU

[Distutils] Re: Adopting virtualenv package maintenance

2018-09-06 Thread Bernat Gabor
I'm maintainer of tox and tox is heavily relying on virtualenv. I would be up for being a co maintainer, but for now I don't have availability for heavy undertakings. I've had a discussion with Donald at Pycon us about it and there certainly is a desire and place for virtualenv. the issue is

[Distutils] Re: Adopting virtualenv package maintenance

2018-09-06 Thread Alex Becker
Another +1 to the utility of a maintainer. I am also working on package management and have found that venv is not a full replacement for virtualenv--for example I don't believe the environment can be entered programatically, while virtualenv provides activate_this.py which can be exec'd. I'm sure

[Distutils] Re: Adopting virtualenv package maintenance

2018-09-06 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
I don’t have the authority to do it, but I would really love to see virtualenv getting maintenance. Pipenv still depends on virtualenv because for not only Python 2. I am already working on switching to venv for Python 3.5+, but we will continue to need virtualenv for quite a while due to some

[Distutils] Re: manylinux1 guidelines for zlib?

2018-09-06 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
I see. Thanks for the clarification! > On 05/9, 2018, at 22:54, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > >> On Sep 5, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Tzu-ping Chung > > wrote: >> >> Isn’t zlib only required for compression? It is my impression that zipfile’s >> decompressor is pure Python,