Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes: > I don't understand what this is saying - can someone clarify the > reason behind this statement? What is different about a > "non-system-wide installation" that causes this issue (I assume > "non-system-wide" means "not All Users")? The reason I ask is that > virtualenv doesn't do this, and I'm not clear if this is because of a > potential bug lurking in virtualenv (in which case, I'd like to find > out how to reproduce it) or because virtualenv takes a different > approach which avoids this issue somehow.
One example of a non-system-wide installation is a source build of Python. PEP 405 venvs created from a source build should work in the same way as venvs created using an installed Python. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ 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
