Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Have virtual environments led to neglect of the actual environment?
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 10:18, Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:29:52 -0500 Jonathan Goble
wrote: I can't speak for distributors or maintainers [1], but I can speak for myself as a user. I run Debian testing (currently bullseye as that is preparing for release) as my daily OS on my personal laptop, used for personal matters and school assignments (I'm a university computer science student in my senior year).
I don't use the system Python for anything of my own, whether it's a school assignment or a personal project, precisely because I don't want to risk screwing something up. Rather, I maintain a clone/fork of the official CPython GitHub repo, and periodically build from source and `make altinstall` into `~/.local/`.
For the record, instead of building Python by hand, you could use a distribution such as Anaconda or the community-maintained conda-forge.
Regards
Antoine.
I've been using pyenv (on MacBooks to be fair, not Linux/Debian) and been quite happy with that, and it basically does what Jonathan does manually: clone the github repo and build python from scratch.
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