Eggs, VirtualEnv, and Apt - best practices?

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Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> that is a very valid point, but it seemed that Scott has homogeneous
>> environment: Debian/Ubuntu so my post was relative to the original
>> request.
>> I agree that when you throw Windows/MacOS into the mix things
>> become "interesting". But then it's better when your developers
>> develop on
>> server/platform they are going to be using, using same stack they
>> going to
>> face in production etc. It all depends on requirements and current
>> practices in company. 
> 
> Well, you certainly want a desktop-orientied Linux for users, so you
> chose ubuntu - but then on the server you go with a more stable debian
> system. Even though the both have the same technical and even package
> management-base, they are still incompatible wrt to package versions for
> python.
> 
> And other constraints such as Photoshop not being available for Linux
> can complicate things further.

Photoshop for Windows runs fine under Wine, or at least it does on my
Ubuntu box, just make sure you install the windows core fonts. I don't
think many people realise how good Wine is these days, maybe because it
was so useless for so long, it's pretty good right now. Also there's
'crossover' if you need even better out of  the box Win32 binary
compatibility.

Roger.