[CentralOH] Conda Versus Virtualenv

[John Santiago]

This is the first time I have heard of conda. Would you reccommend using it
over venv. What are some of the advantages over venv?
On Nov 22, 2014 12:34 PM, "pybokeh" <pybokeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been using conda/miniconda on Windows at work and virtualenv/pyvenv
> at home on Linux machine.
> But on my Linux machine, I have dropped pyvenv recently and just use
> miniconda for now on.
> It saves so much time from having to compile the source and the
> miniconda/Anaconda distribution
> has most of the packages I need.  For packages it doesn't have, I can
> still use pip to install them.
> The only disadvantage I can think of using miniconda is maybe you have to
> wait a week or two longer
> to get the latest and greatest version of a package or when a new version
> of Python comes out, you'll
> have to wait even longer still.  But that's minor IMO.
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:39 PM, <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:16:26 -0500, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> [> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:55:41 -0500, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:]
>>
>> > >     What's best way to install ... _and_ virtualenv?
>>
>> > ... uses conda as the package and environment manager[2].
>>
>> What do you think of conda versus virtualenv?
>> Would you drop (or have you dropped) virtualenv to use conda instead?
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