On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Carl Meyer wrote: >I also realized last night that if the need for LD_LIBRARY_PATH is as >rare as it seems to be, people could just as well set it themselves >before running stuff in their virtualenv. We could even have our shell >"activate" script set it, so you'd only have to set it yourself if using >the virtualenv's binary directly without "activate."
+1. Keeps Python nice and simple and AFAICT, it should work because it'll set the environment variable before Python starts executing. OTOH, if no actual use case for LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets raised, then even this won't be necessary. -Barry
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