Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Carl Meyer
e the semantics of PYTHONHOME, it would require the same kind of stdlib bootstrapping hacks that virtualenv currently uses. Avoiding this is a design goal. Carl Sent from my Android phone - Reply message - From: "Vinay Sajip" Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 9:59 am Subject: [Distutils] e

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Antonio Cavallo
On 16 Mar 2011, at 12:47, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Am 16.03.11 08:38, schrieb a.cava...@cavallinux.eu: >> Hi, >> >> please have a look into my little project: >> >> http://pyvm.sf.net > > This redirects me to > > http://cclimited.webfactional.com/ > > Not sure whether it's the right page, if

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Carl Meyer
fit those use cases. So while I think it looks interesting and useful, I don't think its a viable alternative for the goals of pythonv. Carl Sent from my Android phone - Reply message - From: a.cava...@cavallinux.eu Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 7:38 am Subject: [Distutils] early preview

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Carl Meyer
Jim, On 03/16/2011 08:00 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] > buildout. In particular, I know of 2 basic use cases: > > - Get complete isolation from local additions relative to the standard > Python distribution. This is the primary design goal, and I believe it's currently achieved. To be clearer

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Vinay Sajip
Carl Meyer oddbird.net> writes: > This is an early prototype and will certainly require refinement (not to > mention most likely a PEP, at some point). Please try it out and let me > know if it works for you! I haven't tried it yet, but I'm curious: was an approach using PYTHONHOME considered? O

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 16.03.11 08:38, schrieb a.cava...@cavallinux.eu: Hi, please have a look into my little project: http://pyvm.sf.net This redirects me to http://cclimited.webfactional.com/ Not sure whether it's the right page, if it is, I'm completely lost as to what this is all about. On the "Main" page,

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread a.cavallo
Hi, please have a look into my little project: http://pyvm.sf.net It does exactly this integration (and build integration and run time testing) on several different linux distros. It works stright out of the svn py27 trunk but the work flow can be implemented for 3.x. Regards, Antonio On Wed

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Jim Fulton
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Carl Meyer wrote: > Hello all, > > Here at PyCon we've had some discussion about building a > virtualenv-alike into Python core for Python 3.3. The goal is to improve > on virtualenv by providing something that does what virtualenv does > without requiring a copied

Re: [Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Carl Meyer
I forgot to mention - the code for this is in the "pythonv" named branch in the mercurial repo I linked (https://bitbucket.org/carljm/cpythonv), so you'll need to "hg update pythonv" after cloning to see it. Carl On 03/16/2011 04:31 AM, Carl Meyer wrote: > This is an early prototype and will cert

[Distutils] early preview of pythonv

2011-03-16 Thread Carl Meyer
Hello all, Here at PyCon we've had some discussion about building a virtualenv-alike into Python core for Python 3.3. The goal is to improve on virtualenv by providing something that does what virtualenv does without requiring a copied Python binary, symlinked/copied parts of the standard library,