On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote: > On 05/28/2012 04:24 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> It would have been better if the issue of script management on Windows >> had been raised in PEP 405 itself - I likely would have declared PEP >> 397 a dependency *before* accepting it (even if that meant the feature >> missed the alpha 4 deadline and first appeared in beta 1, or >> potentially even missed 3.3 altogether). >> >> However, I'm not going to withdraw the acceptance of the PEP over this >> - while I would have made a different decision at the time given the >> additional information (due to the general preference to treat Windows >> as a first class deployment target), I think reversing my decision now >> would make the situation worse rather than better. > > I think it's unfortunate that this issue (which is > http://bugs.python.org/issue12394) has become entangled with PEP 405 at > all, since AFAICT it is entirely orthogonal. This is a > distutils2/packaging issue regarding how scripts are installed on > Windows. It happens to be relevant when trying to install things into a > PEP 405 venv on Windows, but it applies to a non-virtual Python > installation on Windows every bit as much as it applies to a PEP 405 > environment. In an earlier discussion with Vinay I thought we had agreed > that it was an orthogonal issue and that this proposed patch for it > would be removed from the PEP 405 reference implementation before it was > merged to CPython trunk; I think that would have been preferable. > > This is why there is no mention of the issue in PEP 405 - it doesn't > belong there, because it is not related.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. In that case: Vinay, please revert everything from the pyvenv commit that was actually related to issue #12394 rather than being part of the PEP 405 implementation. As Carl says, it's an unrelated change that needs to be discussed separately. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
