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Doesn't this just move the pain of environment mismatch from dev->prod to dev->staging?

If you use something OS-specific on your dev machine you'll need to fix it at SOME point, right?

Yes, it does. I just think imposing prod. setup testing on your dev env., is the wrong place to do it. For many django apps, I've been able to use testserver, staticserve, dummycaching, synchrounous Celery tasks, etc for development. Just configs that works on checkout. If I need a special database, or something with a non standard interface I add only that to my setup.

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