[ben509]

I agree searching up would be helpful, though, honestly, build tools and other engineers assume you're doing build actions in the project root, and as some of them fail mysteriously if you're not, I often write scripts to fail fast if they're run elsewhere.

Regarding "init", are you complaining that many commands will create a new virtualenv when really only one ought to? Automagically creating the virtualenv definitely seemed cool and modern to me... for about 3 minutes.