See http://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/issue/60/win-assertionerror-in-change_prefix

1.5 is basically broken on Windows, and it breaks all packages that rely on virtualenv ... such as tox. We need a new release.

As for the error you see with 1.4.9, see http://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/issue/11/windows-issue

-srid

On 9/14/2010 2:12 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
Hi All,

  File "virtualenv-1.5\virtualenv.py", line 1645, in <module>
    main()
  File "virtualenv-1.5\virtualenv.py", line 556, in main
    prompt=options.prompt)
  File "virtualenv-1.5\virtualenv.py", line 645, in create_environment
    site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear))
  File "virtualenv-1.5\virtualenv.py", line 769, in install_python
    copy_required_modules(home_dir)
  File "virtualenv-1.5\virtualenv.py", line 723, in copy_required_modules
    dst_filename = change_prefix(filename, dst_prefix)
  File "virtualenv-1.5\virtualenv.py", line 704, in change_prefix
    assert relpath[0] == '/'
AssertionError

Looks like a classic non-cross-platform piece of code, right?

Chris


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