If you have multiple apps in production with different versions of packages that break compatibility then you'll be in a world of pain. You also have supervisor to make it rc-able. On Dec 2, 2015 7:52 PM, "Christopher Sean Hilton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 07:19:25PM +0000, Pedro Tender wrote: > > Node.js modules have been removed also in favor of npm. > > I highly recommend virtualenv and pip to keep your system cleaner if not > > every other reason (package versions, incompatibilities, etc). > > Keep Python packages away from your system and into their own > environment. > > While I love pip and virtualenv in development, I don't understand the > advantage they offer over the system package manager on a production > machine. In addition, I feel that a reasonable uwsgi package would > include an rc-script to start your app automatically at system boot > time. [1] Combine all of this with puppet, git and some git-hook magic for > your custom bits and you end up with an easily managed system. > > There's no doubt that all of this could be hand hacked but the way I > see it the less hand hacking on production machines, the better. It > might just be my style, but I feel that the less work I have to do on > a production system from the command line, the more reliable that > system will be. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [1] As an aside, my efforts might be better spent adding an rc script > to the current gunicorn package. But, if I'm correct uwsgi is written > in C so I expect it to be a little more performant. My project is > going to run on a Soekris Net5501 at the end of the day and the whole > reason I'm going here is because apache/mod_wsgi has horrible first > time startup costs serving django applications and tuning it is a bear. > > -- > Chris > > __o "All I was trying to do was get home from work." > _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks > ___(*)/_(*)____.___o____..___..o...________ooO..._____________________ > Christopher Sean Hilton [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com]
