Changes & News

1.4.8

• Fix for Mac OS X Framework builds that use --universal-archs=intel
• Fix activate_this.py on Windows.
• Allow $PYTHONHOME to be set, so long as you use source bin/activate it will get unset; if you leave it set and do not activate the environment it will still break the environment.
• Include pip 0.7.1

1.4.7

• Include pip 0.7

1.4.6

• Allow activate.sh to skip updating the prompt (by setting $VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT).

1.4.5

• Include pip 0.6.3
• Fix activate.bat and deactivate.bat under Windows when PATH contained a parenthesis

1.4.4

• Include pip 0.6.2 and Distribute 0.6.10
• Create the virtualenv script even when Setuptools isn’t installed
• Fix problem with virtualenv --relocate when bin/ has subdirectories (e.g., bin/.svn/); from Alan Franzoni.
• If you set $VIRTUALENV_USE_DISTRIBUTE then virtualenv will use Distribute by default (so you don’t have to remember to use --distribute).

1.4.3

• Include pip 0.6.1

1.4.2

• Fix pip installation on Windows
• Fix use of stand-alone virtualenv.py (and boot scripts)
• Exclude ~/.local (user site-packages) from environments when using --no-site-packages

1.4.1

• Include pip 0.6

1.4

• Updated setuptools to 0.6c11
• Added the –distribute option
• Fixed packaging problem of support-files

1.3.4

• Virtualenv now copies the actual embedded Python binary on Mac OS X to fix a hang on Snow Leopard (10.6).
• Fail more gracefully on Windows when win32api is not installed.
• Fix site-packages taking precedent over Jython’s __classpath__ and also specially handle the new __pyclasspath__ entry in sys.path.
• Now copies Jython’s registry file to the virtualenv if it exists.
• Better find libraries when compiling extensions on Windows.
• Create Scripts\pythonw.exe on Windows.
• Added support for the Debian/Ubuntu /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages directory.
• Set distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars()['LIBDIR'] (based on sys.real_prefix) which is reported to help building on Windows.
• Make deactivate work on ksh
• Fixes for --python: make it work with --relocatable and the symlink created to the exact Python version.

1.3.3

• Use Windows newlines in activate.bat, which has been reported to help when using non-ASCII directory names.
• Fixed compatibility with Jython 2.5b1.
• Added a function virtualenv.install_python for more fine-grained access to what virtualenv.create_environment does.
• Fix a problem with Windows and paths that contain spaces.
• If /path/to/env/.pydistutils.cfg exists (or /path/to/env/pydistutils.cfg on Windows systems) then ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg and use that other file instead.
• Fix ` a problem <https://bugs.launchpad.net/virtualenv/+bug/340050>`_ picking up some .so libraries in /usr/local.

1.3.2

• Remove the [install] prefix = ... setting from the virtualenv distutils.cfg – this has been causing problems for a lot of people, in rather obscure ways.
• If you use a boot script it will attempt to import virtualenv and find a pre-downloaded Setuptools egg using that.
• Added platform-specific paths, like /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/plat-linux2

1.3.1

• Real Python 2.6 compatibility. Backported the Python 2.6 updates to site.py, including user directories (this means older versions of Python will support user directories, whether intended or not).
• Always set [install] prefix in distutils.cfg – previously on some platforms where a system-wide distutils.cfg was present with a prefix setting, packages would be installed globally (usually in /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages).
• Sometimes Cygwin seems to leave .exe off sys.executable; a workaround is added.
• Fix --python option.
• Fixed handling of Jython environments that use a jython-complete.jar.

1.3

• Update to Setuptools 0.6c9
• Added an option virtualenv --relocatable EXISTING_ENV, which will make an existing environment “relocatable” – the paths will not be absolute in scripts, .egg-info and .pth files. This may assist in building environments that can be moved and copied. You have to run this after any new packages installed.
• Added bin/activate_this.py, a file you can use like execfile("path_to/activate_this.py", dict(__file__="path_to/activate_this.py")) – this will activate the environment in place, similar to what the mod_wsgi example does.
• For Mac framework builds of Python, the site-packages directory /Library/Python/X.Y/site-packages is added to sys.path, from Andrea Rech.
• Some platform-specific modules in Macs are added to the path now (plat-darwin/, plat-mac/, plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages), from Andrea Rech.
• Fixed a small Bashism in the bin/activate shell script.
• Added __future__ to the list of required modules, for Python 2.3. You’ll still need to backport your own subprocess module.
• Fixed the __classpath__ entry in Jython’s sys.path taking precedent over virtualenv’s libs.

1.2

• Added a --python option to select the Python interpreter.
• Add warnings to the modules copied over, for Python 2.6 support.
• Add sets to the module copied over for Python 2.3 (though Python 2.3 still probably doesn’t work).

1.1.1

• Added support for Jython 2.5.

1.1

• Added support for Python 2.6.
• Fix a problem with missing DLLs/zlib.pyd on Windows. Create
• bin/python (or bin/python.exe) even when you run virtualenv with an interpreter named, e.g., python2.4
• Fix MacPorts Python
• Added –unzip-setuptools option
• Update to Setuptools 0.6c8
• If the current directory is not writable, run ez_setup.py in /tmp
• Copy or symlink over the include directory so that packages will more consistently compile.

1.0

• Fix build on systems that use /usr/lib64, distinct from /usr/lib (specifically CentOS x64).
• Fixed bug in --clear.
• Fixed typos in deactivate.bat.
• Preserve $PYTHONPATH when calling subprocesses.

0.9.2

• Fix include dir copying on Windows (makes compiling possible).
• Include the main lib-tk in the path.
• Patch distutils.sysconfig: get_python_inc and get_python_lib to point to the global locations.
• Install distutils.cfg before Setuptools, so that system customizations of distutils.cfg won’t effect the installation.
• Add bin/pythonX.Y to the virtualenv (in addition to bin/python).
• Fixed an issue with Mac Framework Python builds, and absolute paths (from Ronald Oussoren).

0.9.1

• Improve ability to create a virtualenv from inside a virtualenv.
• Fix a little bug in bin/activate.
• Actually get distutils.cfg to work reliably.

0.9

• Added lib-dynload and config to things that need to be copied over in an environment.
• Copy over or symlink the include directory, so that you can build packages that need the C headers.
• Include a distutils package, so you can locally update distutils.cfg (in lib/pythonX.Y/distutils/distutils.cfg).
• Better avoid downloading Setuptools, and hitting PyPI on environment creation.
• Fix a problem creating a lib64/ directory.
• Should work on MacOSX Framework builds (the default Python installations on Mac). Thanks to Ronald Oussoren.

0.8.4

• Windows installs would sometimes give errors about sys.prefix that were inaccurate.
• Slightly prettier output.

0.8.3

• Added support for Windows.

0.8.2

• Give a better warning if you are on an unsupported platform (Mac Framework Pythons, and Windows).
• Give error about running while inside a workingenv.
• Give better error message about Python 2.3.

0.8.1

Fixed packaging of the library.

0.8

Initial release. Everything is changed and new!