[Python-Dev] In-Python virtualisation and packaging (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Jun 13 14:57:36 CEST 2011

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:47:33 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

$ python3.3 -m virtualize /tmp/venv $ source /tmp/venv/bin/activate.sh $ pysetup3 install Mako and so on. A log of early experiments, which seems reasonably promising, is at [4]. Do people agree that it may be fitting, proper and timely to bring virtualisation into Python, and are there any fundamental flaws anyone can see with the approach used?

This sounds really great, and definitely needs a PEP so that we can ask many questions :)

As a side-note, I think calling it "virtualization" is a recipe for confusion.

Regards

Antoine.

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