> On 21 Jul 2022, at 00:46, Svein Seldal <svei...@seldal.com> wrote:
>
>
> Using py in the three OS-es (unix-like, Mac and Win) has become very similar
> in the last years, which is great. Making portable py code has become very
> easy. However, there is one peculiarity in Win which I find annoying: virtual
> environments insists on placing executables in the `Scripts` directory, while
> the other platforms use `bin`. This forces portable scripts and programs on
> the outside of py to be OS-aware in order to interact with a venv on a
> Win-system vs other systems.
>
> I would like to proposing the ability to configure virtual environments to
> use `bin` directory for executable on Windows. Personally I think it would be
> smart move if it were changed to `bin` as default, making all py platform act
> consistently. However, I do understand that there might be existing code out
> there that depend on using `Scripts`.
In my experience I have to write Windows specific scripts and code so dealing
with "Scripts" is not an issue.
Yes I would have preferred it to be called bin, but we are where we are.
Barry
>
> Best regards,
> Svein
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