In article <cacac1f_o9cc3d_8vx8e-gjujuztz7gft79g-4rzhkkg1+cu...@mail.gmail.com>, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > As part of PEP 453, there is a proposal to change the layout of python > environments on Windows by renaming the "Scripts" directory to "bin" > (to match other platforms). The PEP is targeted at Python 3.4 (core > and venv module) but for consistency virtualenv should also change to > match (only for virtualenvs based on Python 3.4+, obviously). > > This change could potentially affect tools that build on virtualenv > (tox, virtualenv-wrapper, for example). > > Coping with the change should be relatively easy - where code > currently uses "Scripts" on Windows, they can simply check to see > which of "Scripts" and "bin" exists and use that. > > Could anyone who has code like this please check if this change will > cause them problems and let us know?
It might be worthwhile reviewing the discussion that took place on python-dev last year when Van Lindberg proposed changing the Windows file layout, including the scripts path. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/117552.html -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
