[Python-Dev] In-Python virtualisation and packaging

[Vinay Sajip]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net>
> wrote:
> > As a side-note, I think calling it "virtualization" is a recipe for
> > confusion.
> 
> Indeed, OS level virtualisation pretty much has a lock on that term.
> "virtual environments" skates close to it but manages to avoid it well
> enough to avoid confusion.

Or as they involving encapsulating paths and libaries, perhaps we could call
them "capsules" ;-) though I think the term virtualenv is pretty entrenched now
in the Python community.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip