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Subject: Re: [venv] site-wide distutils.cfg
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On 06/15/2011 01:20 PM, Carl Meyer wrote:
> The problem is that there are quite a few options that can be placed in
> distutils.cfg that pretty much break the operation of virtualenv. I
> suppose we could include the option you're proposing with the proviso
> "if you use this, you're on your own" -- but I really would prefer not to.
>
> Is there something particularly onerous about writing a tiny wrapper
> script that creates a virtualenv and then appends the option(s) you need
> to its internal distutils.cfg file?
>
> Carl

Thanks Carl for your response.  In some circumstances, no its not a big 
deal to wrap the script so that each virtualenv gets its distutils.cfg 
file updated with the correct setting.  In fact, that is what I am doing 
right now with my jenkins build script.

However, from a system administration perspective, I do think it would 
be helpful to be able to specify the default distutils.cfg file used 
with virtualenvs.  What if, instead of using the system file, virtualenv 
has an option to use a custom file:

--distutilscfg = /etc/python/venv-distutils.cfg

or environment variable:

VENV_DISTUTILSCFG = /etc/python/venv-distutils.cfg

If set, virtualenv would use that file as the default instead of the 
blank one it currently uses.  That would give the sysadmin control, 
without needing users or tools to be modified to use a wrapper script, 
and without the possible dangers of including the site-wide file.

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