[Systers-dev] Additional Development Server

[Jennifer Redman]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Gloria W <strangest at comcast.net> wrote:

> Is VirtualBox running there? Can we have separate images for 2.x and 3? if
> not, I recommend improvising (using virtualenv). Let me know what you want
> me to do. I don't want to reach in and do it all, I realize these are also
> valuable skills for GSOC people to learn. But I also want to strike a
> balance between getting up and running, and learning. Let me know your
> opinion on the subject
>

No to virtual box and no I don't think it would be a good idea to run
virtual box (or xen) on our VPS image.  Somehow it seems wrong to run an
image server on an image....? We are waiting for the initial install from
Johns Companies.  The idea behind this box is that we can give students
logins and they can test on a working system where other people can test
their code.

I don't know anything about virtualenv -- but it sounds like maybe it might
work to handle the different versions of Python, and possibly Mailman?  I'll
do some googling -- but if you want to explain about how virtualenv works
and how it would help us manage multiple instances of Mailman that would be
great!

Thanks!
Jen