On 31 May 2012 02:41, Nicholas Fitzkee wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:55:33 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > The consensus solution for this is ‘virtualenv’
> > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv>.
> >
> > It is so popular as a solution for the kinds of problems you describe
> > that
Nicholas Fitzkee writes:
> I took a look at this, and I'm a little confused.
You and me both. I think ‘virtualenv’ is solving the wrong problem, but
it appears to be the best answer so far to the need you described.
> What am I missing?
You'll have to get an answer for that from someone who a
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:55:33 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
> The consensus solution for this is ‘virtualenv’
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv>.
>
> It is so popular as a solution for the kinds of problems you describe
> that its functionality will come into core Python, as discussed i
nfitz...@gmail.com writes:
> For various reasons, I would like to maintain multiple copies of
> python on my (Ubuntu 12.04) linux system. This is primarily for
> scientific software development; several modules require different
> configuration options than are installed on the 'vanilla' python
>
http://www.virtualenv.org/
You can install multiple versions of the python interpreter in ubuntu
without issue. You can use virtualenv to maintain different site
packages for whatever purposes you need.
Michael
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:38 PM, wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For various reasons, I would
Hi all,
For various reasons, I would like to maintain multiple copies of python on my
(Ubuntu 12.04) linux system. This is primarily for scientific software
development; several modules require different configuration options than are
installed on the 'vanilla' python included in the Ubuntu di
