On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:52:34 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 March 2015 at 07:51, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > I’ve long wished that the OS had it’s own virtual environment. A lot of > > problems > > seems to come from trying to cram the things the OS wants with the things > > that > > the user wants into the same namespace. > > I'm more wanting to go in the other direction and suggest to folks > that if they're not *scripting the OS*, then the system Python isn't > what they want, and they should be using at least a virtual > environment,
So that defeats the whole point of having a system distribution. I don't have any stakes in Debian / RedHat etc., but that sounds a little bit ridiculous to me ;-) On the other hand, perhaps it would allow ditching any requests to keep code compatible with old versions such as 2.6. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
