On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 March 2015 at 07:51, Donald Stufft <donald@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