On 13Jun2011 13:47, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: | 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.
"virtualenv" by all means - we all know what is meant. But "virtualisation" - I also am -1 on that. Indeed, when I started reading this thread my expectation was wrong for that very reason. Same issue with "capsules" (yes I know you weren't serious) - too generic a term, too vague. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It looked good-natured, she thought; Still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect. _______________________________________________ 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
