[Systers-dev] Additional Development Server

[Gloria W]

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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Gloria W <strangest at comcast.net 
> <mailto:strangest at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>     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
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> 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....?
Oh, true, sorry. I didn't read deeply enough to know this was already am 
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.
Got it, thanks.
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> 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!
virtualenv essentially changes your PYTHONPATH, for the sole purpose of 
having multiple versions of Python on one system and not wanting to 
install them using the OS packaging system.

It sets up project files in your home directory. You can switch from one 
project file to another, only changing the Python environment, but 
leaving everything else in tact. It is most effective when used with 
virtuaenvwrapper:

http://www.doughellmann.com/articles/pythonmagazine/completely-different/2008-05-virtualenvwrapper/index.html

Thanks!
Gloria