[Systers-dev] Additional Development Server

[Gloria W]

On 03/30/2010 09:43 PM, Jennifer Redman wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com 
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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!
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> I found this blog post and all of these tools sound awesome: 
> http://clemesha.org/blog/2009/jul/05/modern-python-hacker-tools-virtualenv-fabric-pip/
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> Virtualenv, fabric and pip.
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> As long as we can have controlled deviation from testing and prod -- I 
> think it would be really great to get some more "real" python 
> development tools into the mix.  Thanks Gloria for the suggestions and 
> being willing to help get set up!
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Sure. Fabric is more of a deployment tool, running commands on remote 
machines via Python. Pip is a better easy_install, which allows 
un-install (which must be done manually using easy_install/setuptools), 
and perfroms error checking before installation (so it is less likely to 
fail during installation). I think the handiest tools for our immediate 
need are virtualenvwrapper/virtualenv. If we are also trying to resolve 
repackaging and repeated deployment issues, the others are handy as well.

Gloria