I would like to explicitly avoid Hardlink Farms because those still have "Logical" duplication i'd like to bind in the new paths without having it look like each virtualenv is 400-1000 mb of distinct data
-- Ronny Am Montag, den 30.10.2017, 22:23 +0000 schrieb Thomas Kluyver: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, at 07:16 PM, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote: > > in order to elevate those issues i would like to propose a new > > installation layout, > > where instead of storing each distribution in every python all > > distributions would share a storage, and each individual > > environment > > would only have references to the packages that where > > "installed/activated" for them > > This is also essentially what conda does - the references being in > the > form of hard links. The mechanism has some drawbacks of its own - > like > if a file somehow gets modified, it's harder to fix it, because > removing > the environment no longer removes the files. > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig