On 23 March 2013 12:55, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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).
Yes. And links in general are less common, and so more of a surprise, on Windows as well. Paul _______________________________________________ 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
