Re: Managing environments (Python venv, guix environment, etc.)

[Stefan Monnier]

> Like Eli said, this seems unwise. But it hints at a logical problem: if
> start-process and friends are simply documented to use exec-path and
> process-environment, but use their modified values in some circumstances,
> someone trying to debug this could have a big problem.

process-file and start-file-process are documented to obey
file-name-handlers-alist, so their callers should expect
directory-dependent behavior, including potentially not blindly obeying
exec-path.


        Stefan