[actuallyalys]

Treating the environment files as a build artifact does make more sense than having a directory of environments somewhere else. I'm not sure there are any practical advantages to doing it that way, though. I name my environments after the project, so it's more like the environment's folder is a secondary project folder than part of the environment.

Edit: It looks like pipenv, which hopefully will replace virtualenvwrapper and the like, supports storing the environment in the project folder: https://docs.pipenv.org/advanced/#changing-where-pipenv-stor...