Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> > wrote: > > As a side-note, I think calling it "virtualization" is a recipe for > > confusion. > > Indeed, OS level virtualisation pretty much has a lock on that term. > "virtual environments" skates close to it but manages to avoid it well > enough to avoid confusion.
Or as they involving encapsulating paths and libaries, perhaps we could call them "capsules" ;-) though I think the term virtualenv is pretty entrenched now in the Python community. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ 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
