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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 15:07:11 CEST 2011

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

You're right in terms of the current Python ecosystem and 3.x adoption, because of course this approach requires support from Python itself in terms of its site.py code. However, virtual environments have a utility beyond supporting older Pythons on newer OSes, since another common use case is having different library environments sandboxed from each other on different projects, even if all those projects are using Python 3.3+.

Yeah, even if the innate one struggles on later OS releases that changed things in a backwards incompatible way, it will still be valuable on the OS versions that are around at the time that version of Python gets released.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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