numbas / editor

An editor for the Numbas e-learning system.
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use virtualenv #67

Closed christianp closed 11 years ago

christianp commented 12 years ago

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv This would probably make installing the editor considerably easier.

anthonyyoud commented 12 years ago

Yes and no. Where the OS provides packages for the needed software, my preference is to use those packages (automatic updates, no fiddly compiling of Python libraries, dependencies automatically satisfied, etc.).

On the other hand, a virtualenv does provide a self-contained environment (and using pip as the package installer does some dependency-checking, although not at the same level as a native packaging system), so I can see the advantages - I've used a virtualenv in the installation instructions for CentOS 6, because it doesn't provide native packages for quite a lot of what's needed.

I'm going to attempt a Solaris installation next (just for the challenge), and this will no doubt come in handy.

On 17/07/12 13:31, Christian Perfect wrote:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv This would probably make installing the editor considerably easier.


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