> On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19 March 2015 at 07:51, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> I’ve long wished that the OS had it’s own virtual environment. A lot of >> problems >> seems to come from trying to cram the things the OS wants with the things >> that >> the user wants into the same namespace. > > I'm more wanting to go in the other direction and suggest to folks > that if they're not *scripting the OS*, then the system Python isn't > what they want, and they should be using at least a virtual > environment, preferably an entirely separate software collection that > they can upgrade on their own timeline, independently of what they > system does. >
It’s likely easier to get the OS to move it’s own things to a virtual environment than it is to convince every single person who uses an OS to never install globally. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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