On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:15 AM Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> Have you tried using conda envs? Conda avoids duplication by unpacking all > packages to a shared directory and then hard-linking them into environments. > > I'm not saying that should preclude doing something similar for > virtualenvs, but it's probably worth looking at existing solutions before > embarking on a change of this magnitude. > Buildout has also done this for quite a long time. http://www.buildout.org/en/latest/topics/optimizing.html On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:22 AM Freddy Rietdijk <freddyrietd...@fridh.nl> wrote: > What Conda and Nix do is basically having a store with packages, and then > indeed linking them to form environments. While this works, it is important > that one is very careful tracing how the packages are built, because not > doing so can easily cause trouble in case of modules with extension types. > Buildout shares this problem. PIL is a classic example of an egg, which can have vastly different runtime based on the compile time. -- Joni Orponen
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