On 14 January 2018 at 03:06, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > Hi, > > PEP 370 [1] was my first PEP that got accepted. I created it exactly one > decade and two days ago for Python 2.6 and 3.0. Back then we didn't have > virtual environment support in Python. Ian Bicking had just started to > create the virtualenv project a couple of months earlier. > > Fast forward 10 years... > > Nowadays Python has venv in the standard library. The user-specific > site-packages directory is no longer that useful. I would even say it's > causing more trouble than it's worth. For example it's common for system > script to use "#!/usr/bin/python3" shebang without -s or -I option. > > I propose to deprecate the feature and remove it in Python 4.0.
Given that we're working towards making user site-packages the default install location in pip, removing that feature at the interpreter level would be rather counterproductive :) Virtual environments are a useful tool if you're a professional developer, but for a lot of folks just doing ad hoc personal scripting, they're more complexity than is needed, and the simple "my packages" vs "the system's package" split is a better option. (It's also rather useful for bootstrapping tools like "pipsi" - "pip install --user pipsi", then "pipsi install" the other commands you want access to). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
