On Nov 7, 2015 7:30 PM, "Nathaniel Smith" <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > alternative approach would be to totally decouple the host python used > to execute pip from the target python that pip acts upon, on the > grounds that these are logically distinct things. (As a thought > experiment you can even imagine a package manager called, say, 'cpip', > which is a standalone program written in C or some other > non-Python-language, but that happens to know how to manipulate Python > environments.
This is a great idea! It exists, and it is spelled "conda". Well, it's written in some particular version of Python, but the package and environment management is completely decoupled. You can in install R packages or Julia packages or different Python versions.
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