[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

Thu Oct 8 19:41:57 CEST 2009

On 8 Oct 2009, at 19:22 , David Cournapeau wrote:
>> This is not true - stow solves the problem in a more general way (in
> the sense that it is not restricted to python), at least on platforms
> which support softlink.
I was, of course, talking about "pure" Python solutions (but I should 
indeed have qualified my statement thus), in the general cases there 
are several solutions to handle that including but not limited to stow 
you already mentioned, BSD jails or full-blown virtual machines.