[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] share: add wrapper script for the YoutubeDL Python module

[Steve Lhomme]

>> Virtual Environment
>> https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html
>>
>> The other thing is that whatever VLC needs, it doesn't pollute the 
>> system environment, potentially introducing incompatible dependencies.
> 
> Using a venv does not seem very useful here.
> If packagers want to do that, thats a different story but
> in general I dont think VLC should set up a venv because
> it does not even install any dependency so it seems pointless
> to do.
> Even if we were to package it in contribs, a venv is probably
> not needed as it seems youtube-dl has no dependencies itself
> so it could just be easily imported without a venv.

I think we need to package it in VLC since we need to be able to make 
package sources of whatever we use in VLC, our code, the contribs and 
the tools.