[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip) (original) (raw)
Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 14:52:24 CEST 2009
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
= Virtualenv and the multiple version support in Distribute = ... My opinion is that this tool exists only because Python doesn't support the installation of multiple versions for the same distributions.
This is not at all how I use virtualenv. For me virtualenv is a sandbox so that I don't have to become root whenever I need to install a Python package for testing purposes and to allow me to hop between sets of installed Python packages while developing on multiple Python projects. I also use it as a sandbox for build bots so that multiple bots on the same machine can each build their own projects with just the known dependencies installed.
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