[Python-Dev] supporting multiple versions of one package in one environment is insane

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:51:00PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> Virtualenv allows you to create an isolated environment to install
>> some distribution without polluting the
>> main site-packages, a bit like a user site-packages.
>
> ...as does buildout, and these are the right type of solution to this  
> problem.
>
where type of problem == sandboxed environment, sure.  How do you solve the
problem for system packagers?

-Toshio
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