[Python-Dev] supporting multiple versions of one package in one environment is insane

[Chris Withers]

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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