On 4 February 2014 19:23, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > It's not especially elegant to have to restart in a venv, but IMO it's the > lesser of two "evils". It is something that we currently have to do > (virtualenv does it too, with -p) but if a more elegant approach were > found, I'd certainly use it. The other inelegance (install pip in every venv) > is not essential, as I've shown.
I've pointed out the technical problem with trying to rely solely on a global install on Linux: it makes it hard to use a newer version of pip than the OS provides. Installing pip into the virtual environments avoids that problem without conflicting with the OS package manager when it comes to the system Python installation. That decoupling from the distro version is a worthwhile technical benefit of the current approach. While it does mean that multiple virtual environments may need to be updated when a new version of pip is released, it *also* makes testing with different versions straightforward. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
