On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:52:24PM +0200, 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. > Let's actually look at these reasons:
> 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 This is needing to install multiple versions and use the newly installed version for testing. > and to allow me to hop between > sets of installed Python packages while developing on multiple Python > projects. This is the ability to install multiple versions and specify different versions for different projects you're working on. > 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 the only use in the list that is virtualenv specific. The rest are cases of needing to install multiple versions on the system. -Toshio
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