[Python-Dev] supporting multiple versions of one package in one environment is insane
Chris Withers
chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri Oct 9 18:29:28 CEST 2009
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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?
What's to stop a system packager either just running the buildout on
install, or running the buildout at package build time and then just
dropping the resulting environment wherever they want to install
applications? Such a package would only be dependent on the right python
version at runtime...
cheers,
Chris
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