On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 23:18 +0100, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > [Mike Orr, 2009-02-07] > > Ah, it's been a long time since I've seen a Linux system where the > > user and system administrator weren't the same person. > > well, sometimes it needs some work to glue different Python modules and > applications together (Pylons devs/users should know this better than > others, no?) and guess who will be blamed if a random Python application > suddenly doesn't work anymore? Specially since using easy_install to > install modules system-wide is recommend everywhere (even by Python > programmers!). > > FTR: I don't think easy_install is pure evil, it's simply not used sanely.
This is interesting. To me the direction this thread took is in reverse. Things should be installed globally. It is part of "production". You define your deployment, your dependencies and that is what you get. That way you don't have to much with silly things like virtualenv. Once a machine of mine goes production, it never gets updated except for security releases. If done properly they will not break apis and if they do they better mention it in the release notes so we can test the app before we do the upgrade. If I need to have "another app" with a different version I will use a VM or a new server. Now, I have in the past installed things locally. In fact at one point I used to install everything per user. It would be almost like they had a FreeBSD jail where everything was at there disposal except system global files but that was when I was working on apps where I had customers that were unwilling to pay for environments of their own. Joshau D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: [email protected] Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
