Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: Why not modify sys.prefix? - -- As discussed above under `Backwards Compatibility`_, this PEP proposes to add ``sys.site_prefix`` as the prefix relative to which site-package directories are found.

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-08 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2011 05:43 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: I'm actually finding I quite like the virtualenv scheme of having sys.prefix refer to the virtual environment and sys.real_prefix refer to the interpeter's default environment. If pyvenv used the same

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-03 Thread VanL
For what its worth On 11/1/2011 11:43 AM, Paul Moore wrote: On 1 November 2011 16:40, Paul Moorep.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 November 2011 16:29, Paul Moorep.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 20:10, Carl Meyerc...@oddbird.net wrote: For Windows, can you point me at the nt

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Not a zip file specifically - just a binary stream which organises scripts to be installed. If each class in a hierarchy has access to a binary stream, then subclasses have access to the streams for base classes as well as their own stream, and can install selectively from base class

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-01 Thread Vinay Sajip
Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de writes: I'm not sure how many scripts you are talking about, and how long they are. Assuming there are free, and assuming they are short, I'd not make them separate source files again, but put them into string literals instead: scripts = {

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-01 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2011 09:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: That's fine, but either make sure it works with a POSIX-conformant /bin/sh, or make the shebang explicitly bash (bash is notoriously buggy in respect of being POSIX-compatible when named sh). It

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Moore
On 31 October 2011 20:10, Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: For Windows, can you point me at the nt scripts? If they aren't too complex, I'd be willing to port to Powershell. Thanks! They are here: https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pythonv/src/6d057cfaaf53/Lib/venv/scripts/nt The attached

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Moore
On 1 November 2011 16:29, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 20:10, Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: For Windows, can you point me at the nt scripts? If they aren't too complex, I'd be willing to port to Powershell. Thanks! They are here:

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Moore
On 1 November 2011 16:40, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 November 2011 16:29, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 20:10, Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: For Windows, can you point me at the nt scripts? If they aren't too complex, I'd be willing to port to

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Vinay Sajip
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: I don't understand why a zip file makes this easier (especially the update selectively part). Not a zip file specifically - just a binary stream which organises scripts to be installed. If each class in a hierarchy has access to a binary stream,

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2011 05:10 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: Why not modify sys.prefix? - -- As discussed above under `Backwards Compatibility`_, this PEP proposes to add ``sys.site_prefix`` as the prefix relative to which site-package

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:50:24 + (UTC) Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: I don't understand why a zip file makes this easier (especially the update selectively part). Not a zip file specifically - just a binary stream which

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Vinay Sajip
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: Isn't that overengineered? We're talking about a couple of files. We're not talking about a lot of code to do this, either - just the interface to the existing code (which is needed anyway to install the minimal scripts in the venv). It's not even

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/2011 04:47 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: It would be even simpler not to process it at all, but install the scripts as-is (without the execute bit) :) Sure, but such an approach makes it difficult to

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Vinay Sajip
Carl Meyer carl at oddbird.net writes: I don't see any advantage to zipping. If done at install-time (which is necessary to make the scripts maintainable in the source tree) it also has the downside of introducing another difficulty in supporting source builds equivalently to installed

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2011 09:35 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote: That's true, I hadn't thought of that. So then it sounds like the thing to do is make venv a package and have the code in venv/__init__.py, then have the scripts in a 'scripts' subdirectory below that.

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/2011 06:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:10:18 + (UTC) Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: We already have Unix shell scripts and BAT files in the source tree. Is it really complicated to maintain these

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2011 11:50 AM, Carl Meyer wrote: I have no problem including the basic posix/nt activate scripts if no one else is concerned about the added maintenance burden there. I'm not sure that my cross-shell-scripting fu is sufficient to write

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Moore
On 31 October 2011 16:08, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: On 10/31/2011 11:50 AM, Carl Meyer wrote: I have no problem including the basic posix/nt activate scripts if no one else is concerned about the added maintenance burden there. I'm not sure that my cross-shell-scripting fu is

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2011 10:28 AM, Paul Moore wrote: On 31 October 2011 16:08, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: On 10/31/2011 11:50 AM, Carl Meyer wrote: I have no problem including the basic posix/nt activate scripts if no one else is concerned

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-31 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Carl Meyer writes: On 31 October 2011 16:08, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: I would say this is a perfect opportunity to delegate, in this case to the devotees of other cults^Wshells than bash. Good call - we'll stick with what we've got until such devotees show up :-)

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Vinay Sajip
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes: All the core committers can actually publish PEPs via the PEP hg repo, so Vinay could probably handle pushing the updates to python.org. Submission via the PEP editors is mainly there as a backstop for cases where there's no current core dev directly

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Vinay Sajip
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: Why would that be a problem? Do you plan to install several versions of Python in a single VE? No, but some packages might install headers in /include and others in /include/pythonX.Y. I wasn't sure whether this would cause a problem with files

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:10:18 + (UTC) Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: We already have Unix shell scripts and BAT files in the source tree. Is it really complicated to maintain these additional shell scripts? Is there a lot of code in them? No, they're pretty small: wc -l

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Vinay Sajip
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: We already have Unix shell scripts and BAT files in the source tree. Do we have a blessed location in the stdlib for data files in general? Although we're talking in this instance about scripts, they're just data as far as the venv module is

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:35:20 + (UTC) Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The other alternative would be to make venv a package with all its code in venv/__init__.py and a scripts.zip adjacent to that. Does that seem like a better solution? Please don't make it a zip file. We want

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/2011 08:35 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote: Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: We already have Unix shell scripts and BAT files in the source tree. Do we have a blessed location in the stdlib for data files in general? Although

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Vinay Sajip
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: Please don't make it a zip file. We want code to be easily trackable and editable. Of course. I was thinking of a directory tree in the source, subject to our normal revision control, but processed during make or installation to be available as a

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:42:11 + (UTC) Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: Please don't make it a zip file. We want code to be easily trackable and editable. Of course. I was thinking of a directory tree in the source, subject to our

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Vinay Sajip
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: It would be even simpler not to process it at all, but install the scripts as-is (without the execute bit) :) Sure, but such an approach makes it difficult to provide a mechanism which is easily extensible; for example, with the current

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:47:13 + (UTC) Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net writes: It would be even simpler not to process it at all, but install the scripts as-is (without the execute bit) :) Sure, but such an approach makes it

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:37:35 -0600 Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: What about include files? - - For example, ZeroMQ installs zmq.h and zmq_utils.h in $VE/include, whereas SIP (part of PyQt4) installs sip.h by default in $VE/include/pythonX.Y. With virtualenv,

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-28 Thread Chris McDonough
This is really very comprehensive, thank you! Why not modify sys.prefix? - -- As discussed above under `Backwards Compatibility`_, this PEP proposes to add ``sys.site_prefix`` as the prefix relative to which site-package directories are found. This maintains

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: If it is easier to review and comment on the PEP after it is published on python.org, I can submit it to the PEP editors anytime. Otherwise I'll wait until we've resolved a few more of the open questions, as it's easier for me