It would be good to warn on this more gracefully, but it would require a bit of work - most environment validation we do happens in `configure`, but this error is thrown _before such validation runs_. We could improve our generic `virtualenv`-creation error to be more clear that it doesn't work across windows partition boundaries, but the existing error _arguably_ hints at it? I think that improving this is valuable, but I'm going to let this drift in the backlog for now.
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It would be good to warn on this more gracefully, but it would require a bit of work - most environment validation we do happens in `configure`, but this error is thrown _before such validation runs_. We could improve our generic `virtualenv`-creation error to be more clear that it doesn't work across windows partition boundaries, but the existing error _arguably_ already hints at it? I think that improving this is valuable, but I'm going to let this drift in the backlog for now.