On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > Simon Cross wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> = Virtualenv and the multiple version support in Distribute = >>> >> >> ... >> >>> >>> My opinion is that this tool exists only because Python doesn't >>> support the installation of multiple versions for the same >>> distributions. >>> >> >> This is not at all how I use virtualenv. For me virtualenv is a >> sandbox so that I don't have to become root whenever I need to install >> a Python package for testing purposes and to allow me to hop between >> sets of installed Python packages while developing on multiple Python >> projects. I also use it as a sandbox for build bots so that multiple >> bots on the same machine can each build their own projects with just >> the known dependencies installed. >> >> > > This is exactly why I use virtualenv as well. I don't recall ever having > wanted / needed to install multiple versions of the same library - whilst I > can appreciate that it *can* be a real issue it has never been a problem for > me. > > Michael
+1 - virtualenv, AFAIK is used for sandboxing/isolation of various environments, not dealing with multiple versions within the *same* environment. Of course, it does solve the "being dependent on a specific version" of a dependency because it *is* sandboxed from everything else. Adding multiple version support doesn't remove the need for sandboxing. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
