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I have anaconda installed at work/windows and home/linux. One minor annoyance is that it doesn't play well (at all?) with virtualenv. They worked so hard to get

by a3n 11y ago

I have anaconda installed at work/windows and home/linux. One minor annoyance is that it doesn't play well (at all?) with virtualenv. They worked so hard to get a huge suite of off the shelf third party libraries integrated, it's curious that they would come up with a replacement for virtualenv. I'm halfway hoping that I don't know what I'm talking about.

spdustin 11y ago
http://conda.pydata.org/docs/using/envs.html http://conda.pydata.org/docs/using/envs.html Glad to help :)
- a3n 11y ago
  Right, I know about that. What I'm pointing out is that anaconda doesn't support http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ It's nice that they have an env tool, but why didn't they just use the existing virtualenv?
  - spdustin 11y ago
    Because using theirs means not having to recompile numpy (for example) with each environment. Why doesn't anaconda's env work for you?
    - a3n 11y ago
      Not saying it doesn't work, just wondering why the duplication of functionality. Which you answered, thanks.
      - spdustin 11y ago
        conda env also installs other dependencies for code. Really, the whole point of it all is that conda replaces pip and virtualenv. Conda manages more than just Python packages, but other dependencies as well. For example, here's list of packages in a new environment I created with $ conda create -n hn python $ source activate hn $ conda list -c openssl-1.0.2g-0 pip-8.1.1-py35_0 python-3.5.1-0 readline-6.2-2 setuptools-20.3-py35_0 sqlite-3.9.2-0 tk-8.5.18-0 wheel-0.29.0-py35_0 xz-5.0.5-1 zlib-1.2.8-0 setuptools and wheel are the only Python packages installed. The others are non-Python packages that conda is managing for my environment. For all the talk of vendoring in package manager tools these days, I really, really like the way conda manages this stuff.

by a3n 11y ago

spdustin 11y ago

http://conda.pydata.org/docs/using/envs.html http://conda.pydata.org/docs/using/envs.html Glad to help :)

a3n 11y ago
Right, I know about that. What I'm pointing out is that anaconda doesn't support http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ It's nice that they have an env tool, but why didn't they just use the existing virtualenv?
- spdustin 11y ago
  Because using theirs means not having to recompile numpy (for example) with each environment. Why doesn't anaconda's env work for you?
  - a3n 11y ago
    Not saying it doesn't work, just wondering why the duplication of functionality. Which you answered, thanks.
    - spdustin 11y ago
      conda env also installs other dependencies for code. Really, the whole point of it all is that conda replaces pip and virtualenv. Conda manages more than just Python packages, but other dependencies as well. For example, here's list of packages in a new environment I created with $ conda create -n hn python $ source activate hn $ conda list -c openssl-1.0.2g-0 pip-8.1.1-py35_0 python-3.5.1-0 readline-6.2-2 setuptools-20.3-py35_0 sqlite-3.9.2-0 tk-8.5.18-0 wheel-0.29.0-py35_0 xz-5.0.5-1 zlib-1.2.8-0 setuptools and wheel are the only Python packages installed. The others are non-Python packages that conda is managing for my environment. For all the talk of vendoring in package manager tools these days, I really, really like the way conda manages this stuff.