Managing pipenv virtualenvs

[Tim Johnson]

* Test Bot <onlinejudge95 at gmail.com> [190326 15:44]:
> If the chapters are not contiguous then I can't find a reason to delete
> them (previous venv). Moreover it would be better practice to keep separate
> venv and not to use a single venv for multiple codebase. Highly discouraged
> should be to use the systemwide interpreter.
> 
> Moreover the whole idea of using pipenv/pip is to make the venv easy to
> recreate. That being said I would focus more on whether my
> pipfile/requirements.txt is maintained properly or not. If it is then
> spinning up the same venv is an easy task.
 
  thanks again, Test Bot ...

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:21 AM Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > * Test Bot <onlinejudge95 at gmail.com> [190326 14:18]:
> > > Nothing much i think. If you are properly managing dependencies for each
> > > venv, then each new venv should have the same state as the previous one
> >   Good to hear....
> >
> > > along with some extra dependencies for each new chapter (haven't gone
> > > through the specific book, but I am assuming that in the book, every
> > > chapter builds on the previous one).
> >   The author's source code is on github, so I downloaded all of it
> >   for my edification.
> >
> >   It appears that consecutive chapters do not always build on the
> >   following, i.e. have the previous chapter files.
> >
> >   I guess I will find out why ...
> >   thank you
> > > On a personal note it sounds strange why the author wants to have
> > different
> > > venv's for each chapter.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 3:30 AM Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm on ubuntu 16.04
> > > >
> > > > using pipenv for the "Django for Beginners..." tutorial book.
> > > >
> > > > each chapter instructs me to create a new virtual environment with a
> > > > folder under ~/.local/share/virtualenvs
> > > >
> > > > folders are named with the project name followed by an hyphen and a
> > > > brief codified string.
> > > > examples
> > > >  helloworld-_e28Oloi
> > > >  pages-Du4qJjUr
> > > >
> > > > What would happen if I deleted the first folder, which was created
> > > > in a previous chapter?
> > > >
> > > > ... trying to minimize my SSD real estate.
> > > > thanks
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