hi everyone, i just did a little spring cleaning, and while i cleaned up my ~/Projects folder - the vast amount of that was virtualenvs with roughly the same packages installed - each about 500 mb for like 2-5 mb of code
this seems excessively wasteful - my impression is that ~98% of the files seem to be duplicate. since the impending eol of python2 and the multi python version capabilities of python3 compiled code caches, i'd like to create a proposal for a shared folder structure $LIB/python/shared-packages/ should be a root folder in which unpacked wheels would reside at a initial iteration this solution would suffer from the expanding python path issue since each package would have a toplevel sys.path entry. on order to later on speed this up a simple api can be provided that makes python aware of the metatadata locations and the map toplevel/namespace names directly to import locations for example like shared-packages.pth import sys;sys.path.insert(0, "$LIB/python/shared-packages/shared_packages_support-1.0-py3.whl/"); import shared_packages_support;sys.path.pop(0);shared_packages_support.enable() shared_packages.json { "pytest": "pytest-3.8.8-py2.py3.whl"; } in the aftermath, when shared packages support and fast import/metadata for shared packages where implemented, the sizes of most virtualenvs would shrink significantly -- Ronny -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/JWX7VFJRLWVIIBP4NZ5MEPRVCYTV4ZJT/