[crdoconnor]

>I'm happy that it works for you, but many people have complex infrastructures that aren't easily deployed with virtualenv+apt-get alone.

For your development environment? Seriously?

>I wish I could deploy our python apps with virtualenv alone

I thought this was about dev environments? For deployment (and testing deployment) I use a virtual machine too - vagrant/virtualbox + ansible. Yes, I wouldn't want to pollute my computer with that stuff either.

I wouldn't want to develop inside a virtual machine, though.

[ominous_prime]

A previous python project I worked on had multiple independently developed services, sometimes with conflicting requirements. Production often separated these, but keeping staging and local development environments happy was a constant struggle.

I also like to make sure the devs are working with an environment that translates directly to production (docker makes this much easier now). I really don't enjoy sorting out a blob of code that only works with your specific local configuration:

- ok requires opencv (or other complicated dependency). No problem, that's already in production. - Oh it only builds against the 2.4.7.1 version you have on your machine. - Hmm, 2.4.7.1 has a bug when used with common_lib version X on distro Y - etc.