017 development notes

We need to pay attention to the following items as we prepare the new release:

/System/Aliens

• PIP: we now have Alien-PIP and Alien-PIP3. Python 2.x modules will be installed under /System/Aliens/PIP/2.x and 3.x will go under /System/Aliens/PIP/3.x. The recipe for Python 3.7.0 already patches the module search path so that /System/Aliens/PIP/3.x (with x ranging from the current Python minor version down to 1) are included. We need to backport that patch to older Python recipes that we plan to support.

AlienVFS

• AlienVFS needs to be integrated into the /Programs tree. We need to figure out how to enable direct writes to /Programs without having to deal with writable and working layers.