>> 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.
+1 I also don't use virtualenv for supporting multiple versions, but rather for sandboxing, testing and experimentation. To make sure that an app works with the exact dependencies I think it should work with. Also, it's important that the 'global' site-packages typically requires root privileges while installing to a virtualenv doesn't. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown _______________________________________________ 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
