[Distutils] bootstrapping virtualenv?

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ian Bicking<ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> Am I right in thinking the correct way to get a virtualenv without
>> installing virtualenv into your site-packages is:
>>
>> - download a source distro of virtualenv
>>
>> - unpack it and copy virtualenv.py somewhere
>>
>> - use that virtualenv.py with whatever python you want to create your
>> virtualenvs?
>
> You don't actually have to install virtualenv, just grab virtualenv.py
> (e.g., directly from svn) and run it.  (Ditto pip)

Ah. That's cool.

Jim

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Jim Fulton