On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> wrote: > Virtual environments are phenomenally useful, so I would support having the > full tool in the standard library, but it does raise maintenance and > development issues. > > Don't forget windows support! ;-)
Given that it is desirable for tools like virtualenv to support *old* versions of Python on *new* versions of operating systems, it seems to me that there is an inherent element of their feature set that makes including the whole tool questionable. OTOH, it may make sense to have a baseline tool provided innately, but provide the appropriate third party hooks to allow alternative tools to evolve independently of the stdlib. How well does the regression test suite cope when run inside such a virtualised environment? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
