-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:18 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> At 01:49 PM 2/19/2010 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: >>> I'm not sure how this should best work on Windows (without symlinks, and >>> where things generally work differently), but I would hope if this idea is >>> more visible that someone more opinionated than I would propose the >>> appropriate analog on Windows. >> You'd probably have to just copy pythonv.exe to an appropriate directory, >> and have it use the configuration file to find the "real" prefix. At least, >> that'd be a relatively obvious way to do it, and it would have the advantage >> of being symmetrical across platforms: just copy or symlink pythonv, and >> make sure the real prefix is in your config file. +1 for having the conf file in the same directory as the pythonv esecutable (yes, I know it isn't FHS compatible, but virtualevn is kind of antithetical to the spirit of FHS anyway). >> (Windows does have "shortcuts" but I don't think that there's any way for a >> linked program to know *which* shortcut it was launched from.) > > Some recent discussion pointed out that vista and win7 ntfs actually > supports symlinks. the same question about determining where it was > launched from may still hold there? (and we need this to work on xp). > > How often do windows users need something like virtualenv? (Asking > for experience from windows users of all forms here). I personally > can't imagine anyone that would ever use a system generic python > install from a .msi unless they're just learning python. I would hope > people would already use py2exe or similar and include an entire > CPython VM with their app with their own installer but as I really > have nothing to do with windows these days I'm sure I'm wrong. > > What about using virtualenv with ironpython and jython? does it make > any sense in that context? how do we make it not impossible for them > to support? virtualenv already works with jython: I used it just the other day to test installing BFG in a jython sandbox (which also worked fine). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuBgLgACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5x8ACghv5gXczECU+gKHmZg6L+LYA1 CWMAn0j99m9TtE0LeQ2Z9zOUpse3P53b =l+uZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
