On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > We already have Unix shell scripts and BAT files in the source tree. Is > > it really complicated to maintain these additional shell scripts? Is > > there a lot of code in them? > > No, they're pretty small: wc -l gives > > 76 posix/activate (Bash script, contains deactivate() function) > 31 nt/activate.bat > 17 nt/deactivate.bat > > The question is whether we should stop at that, or whether there should be > support for tcsh, fish etc. such as virtualenv provides.
I don't think we need additional support for more or less obscure shells. Also, if posix/activate is sufficiently well written (don't ask me how :-)), it should presumably be compatible with all Unix shells? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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