[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Oct 8 18:28:52 CEST 2009


Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger gmail.com> writes:

This is needing to install multiple versions and use the newly installed version for testing. [...]

What you're missing is that having separate environments has a virtue of cleanliness, understandability and robustness that a multiple-versioned solution doesn't have. While the technical merits are debatable I'm sure some people definitely prefer to manage a virtualenv-based version.

Regards

Antoine.



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