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non-standard command names: setprojectdir, toggleglobalsitepackages

Open thebjorn opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

It seems virtualenvwrapper-win has some commands renamed. setvirtualenvproject -> setprojectdir; toggsitepackages -> toggleglobalsitepackages.

from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44611146/binding-virtualenv-to-project-using-setvirtualenvproject-command-doesnt-work-w/44613623#44613623

We should probably implement aliases for the "standard" names. It will help people following the linux documentation.

thebjorn avatar Nov 18 '17 01:11 thebjorn

Maybe instead of "aliases" the old names could be deprecated and later removed.

Anyway, I would welcome rather a simple command interface where possible, see my comment in #81.

xmedeko avatar Sep 21 '18 06:09 xmedeko

@xmedeko I live in a world where backward compatibility is king, so unless there is a technical reason we cannot keep the existing command names I would never consider breaking other people's code for purely cosmetic reasons. I'm all for implementing the standard names and removing the non-standard names from the documentation, but deprecation should be limited to cases where we absolutely cannot keep existing functionality.

thebjorn avatar Sep 23 '18 20:09 thebjorn