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

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 13 15:47:06 CEST 2011

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis pitrou.net> wrote: > As a side-note, I think calling it "virtualization" is a recipe for > confusion.

Indeed, OS level virtualisation pretty much has a lock on that term. "virtual environments" skates close to it but manages to avoid it well enough to avoid confusion.

Or as they involving encapsulating paths and libaries, perhaps we could call them "capsules" ;-) though I think the term virtualenv is pretty entrenched now in the Python community.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

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