On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Carl Meyer wrote: >I've pushed this symlink/copy binary approach to the "pythonv2" branch >at http://bitbucket.org/carljm/cpythonv. I was a bit shocked at how easy >it turned out to be: just a few lines in site.py and the same changes to >sysconfig.py as previously. No changes in C code needed at all. It was >so easy I'm wondering what I must have missed, but everything seems to >work well. Please try it and tell me what I missed!
Seems to work for me (on Linux at least :)! Really brilliant work, Carl. >To try it out, create a directory somewhere with a bin/ subdirectory, >symlink or copy (it works either way) the python3 binary from an install >of the pythonv2 branch into bin/, and create lib/python3.3/site-packages >in the virtualenv. Create "pythonv.conf" in the root of the virtualenv - >it can be empty if you want full isolation; if you want the system >site-packages too you can add a [pythonv] section with >"include-system-site=True" (it's a ConfigParser-style file). Start up >your binary and check sys.path. You can download distribute and "python >setup.py install" that into your virtualenv and then easy_install more >stuff into your env. > >At this point, unless the lack of LD_LIBRARY_PATH is actually a blocker, >I can't see any reason not to go with this approach instead. +1. Time for a PEP? -Barry
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