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Comment by kevcampb | Hacker News Reader

Why I love virtualenv and pip.

We use virtualenv and pip extensively here, with virtualenvwrapper.

  mkvirtualenv <project>
  workon <project>
  pip install -r requirements.txt

It just works. I don't spend any time on it. Our developers don't have any problems with it. All the other considerations in the article we either handle as you're meant to, or understand the limitations.

Still, looking forward to some interesting comments on here.

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Did you actually read the entire article, or did you just come here to say that?

It extends to deployment. Off top of my head, the script that you have to write to trivially deploy with virtualenv is something like:

    virtualenv --no-site-packages -p$PYTHON $workdir
    "$workdir/bin/activate"
    (cd $my-package-dir && python setup.py)
    "$workdir/bin/deactivate"
    virtualenv --relocatable "$workdir"
    fpm -s dir -t deb -n "$package" -p "$package.deb" -d <system dependencies> ...

And you have a deb that you can just scp anywhere and it'll just work.

Thanks for your pointless blog post

Thanks for your pointless comment

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