PEP 704 - Require virtual environments by default for package installers

[brettcannon]

@pf_moore

My feeling is that the PEP covered two different purposes:

1. Putting in writing somewhere the common convention that a project virtual environment should be called .venv and be located in the project directory.
2. Checking whether pip’s plan to disable installing into the system environment by default had any major flaws.

For (1), I think it’s a worthy goal to try to formulate some “best practices” in this area, so that tools and IDEs can set comfortable defaults.

If this is something people want, I’m obviously interested/motivated to help with this. I tried to get some consensus in Setting up some guidelines around discovering/finding/naming virtual environments - #57 by pradyunsg , but it didn’t get far as it was discussing too many use cases at once.