On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:57:02 +0000 Richard Oudkerk <shibt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/03/2013 10:06am, Paul Moore wrote: > >> One example of a non-system-wide installation is a source build of Python. > >> PEP 405 venvs created from a source build should work in the same way as > >> venvs > >> created using an installed Python. > > > > Thanks. I hadn't thought of that case. However, I'm still not entirely > > clear *why* the DLLs need to be copied. I'll set up a source build and > > test virtualenv against it to see if it fails. Assuming it does, I > > should be able to work out what the issue is from that. > > Also, couldn't hard links be used instead of copying? (This will fail > if not on the same NTFS partition, but then one can copy as a fallback.) Hard links are generally hard to discover and debug (at least under Unix, but I suppose the same applies under Windows). 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
