'scripts' should be named bin on win32 as well

Bug #424608 reported by Thomas Johansson
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Bug Description

On windows, virtualenv puts the python interpreter, easy_install as well as any package installed scripts under <env-root>/scripts/, instead of <env-root>/bin like on other platforms. This makes it frustrating to write and maintain scripts, having to special-case this in every script that needs to access any installed script, for example activate_this.py.

Is there a reason for this inconsistency, or can it be fixed?

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Carl Meyer (carljm) wrote :

This behavior is built in to Python, it is not specific to virtualenv. There's no way for virtualenv to fix it without monkeypatching the standard library, which we are not going to do.

Wontfix; not migrating to new issue tracker at https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/

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