PEP 838: Move to standards track#5053
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PEP 838 affects the stdlib `venv` module, so it goes into the standards track instead of the packaging track.
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To me this fits in better as a packaging PEP, since the only part of the stdlib that it touches is a very-much packaging-related part of the stdlib (the venv module), and since it is proposing a standard that we are asking external packaging tools that write pyvenv.cfg files (uv, virtualenv) to comply with as well as the stdlib venv module.
But I don't have a particularly strong opinion, and have very little experience on packaging PEPs; very happy to defer to @ncoghlan and @pfmoore :-)
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I hear this has been discussed with @warsaw as well, so I'll go ahead and land this -- thanks! |
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PEP 838 affects the stdlib
venvmodule, so it goes into the standards track instead of the packaging track.PEP 123: Summary of changes)