>I agree. The first 20 or so times I heard about virtualenv my thought was, "this must be for the people stuck using windoze or OSX that can't just sudo apt-get install python-whatever."
Nothing to do with OS X or Windows specifically. Actually Linux is well known for having problems if you replace the system Python, because a lot of tools depend on it (Debian especially). And apt-get doesn't get you automated multiple isolated environments with all your dependencies...
Nothing to do with OS X or Windows specifically. Actually Linux is well known for having problems if you replace the system Python, because a lot of tools depend on it (Debian especially). And apt-get doesn't get you automated multiple isolated environments with all your dependencies...