Having tried various ways of distributing desktop apps / non-web daemons, I've found virtualenvs useful there too (with the one fairly large caveat that install

Having tried various ways of distributing desktop apps / non-web daemons, I've found virtualenvs useful there too (with the one fairly large caveat that installing wxWidgets in a virtualenv is a world of pain :( But then in those cases I use the OS-provided packages with the OS package manager, so I still never use virtualenv and pip independently)