On 7/24/22, Barry Scott wrote:
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>> On 21 Jul 2022, at 16:42, Christopher Barker wrote:
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>> However, I’m no Windows expert, but I *think* the modern Windows file
>> system(s?) support something like symlinks. It’s an under-the-hood
>> feature, but maybe it’s possible to add a symlink for bin.
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> On 21 Jul 2022, at 00:46, Svein Seldal wrote:
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> 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
>
> On 21 Jul 2022, at 16:42, Christopher Barker wrote:
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> I still am dumbfounded that this wasn’t platform I dependent in the first
> place, but you know what essay about hindsight.
>
> However, I’m no Windows expert, but I *think* the modern Windows file
> system(s?) support something like
On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 16:45, Christopher Barker
wrote:
> I still am dumbfounded that this wasn’t platform I dependent in the first
> place, but you know what essay about hindsight.
>
Indeed. I've no idea why we had the difference in the first place, but
that's water under the bridge at this poi
I still am dumbfounded that this wasn’t platform I dependent in the first
place, but you know what essay about hindsight.
However, I’m no Windows expert, but I *think* the modern Windows file
system(s?) support something like symlinks. It’s an under-the-hood feature,
but maybe it’s possible to add
On 2022-07-21 17:04:16, Svein Seldal wrote:
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/main/src/pip/_internal/locations/_distutils.py#L145-L148
This actually works great! If the "Scripts" folder does not exist, it
uses "bin".
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/main/src/pip/_internal/utils/entrypoints.py#
On 2022-07-21 13:05, Paul Moore wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 11:33, Thomas Grainger
Is this the canonical location of this information?
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Lib/sysconfig.py#L56
In theory, yes. In practice, if that worked, we wouldn't get people
asking about chang
I'd recommend writing a virtualenv plugin that configures
https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/extend.html#virtualenv.discovery.discover.Discover
Overriding the interpreter install path here:
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/6f8fb11aed7c05a535c30040ce314ae5eec1dcc7/src/virtualenv/create/d
On 2022-07-21 12:00:18, Paul Moore wrote:
> How would that work? Would the value of bin-name be stored somewhere and
> then all tools would need to refer to that rather than just selecting based
> on platform like now? You'd still need to change all the tools, or your
> choice of directory simply w
On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 11:33, Thomas Grainger wrote:
> > A practical approach may be to develop some form of library that "hides"
> the difference behind some form of API for finding the correct value, get
> that added to the stdlib and wait a few years until it's adopted everywhere
> (because it
On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 11:07, Simão Afonso
wrote:
> On 2022-07-21 09:55:21, Paul Moore wrote:
> > A practical approach may be to develop some form of library that "hides"
> > the difference behind some form of API for finding the correct value, get
> > that added to the stdlib and wait a few year
> A practical approach may be to develop some form of library that "hides"
the difference behind some form of API for finding the correct value, get
that added to the stdlib and wait a few years until it's adopted everywhere
(because it's so well-designed and convenient ;-)) Then, you can change th
On 2022-07-21 09:55:21, Paul Moore wrote:
> A practical approach may be to develop some form of library that "hides"
> the difference behind some form of API for finding the correct value, get
> that added to the stdlib and wait a few years until it's adopted everywhere
> (because it's so well-desi
There is a *lot* of code that depends on the Windows directory being
"Scripts". There have been proposals in the past to change it (sorry, no
links but it has come up a few times on the various packaging forums), but
it simply breaks too much for too little gain.
If you're serious about wanting th
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