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Nice article.

I use virtualenv heavily and still do the symlinking dance. I keep my django trunk in a ~/libraries folder and symlink the django folder to the /path/to/virtualenv/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages folder. I'm not sure that I have a compelling reason for doing so.

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cd ~Path/to/django; pip install -e .;

It feels better than symlinking to me.

I would really only do this if I had a custom patched django though. If speed/bandwidth is a concern, just make sure your pip cache is setup properly.

I would suggest to stop doing that since thats the point of virtualenv; it is a bit of pain since it doesn't put django-admin.py in path but you can always refer to it.

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