That's in the ballpark of the reasoning I expected. Thanks for the reply and the specific pointers. I tend to develop from the command line and have heretofore

That's in the ballpark of the reasoning I expected. Thanks for the reply and the specific pointers. I tend to develop from the command line and have heretofore deployed manually, so I've found the subtle streamlining offered by VirtualEnvWrapper to be worthwhile. However, I think I'll try to go without it initially to reexamine its value under more automated deployment. Also, this change would mostly serve as an incentive to ssh onto production servers, which is usually not going to be the optimal solution to issues that arise. I hadn't really thought about it this way until your comment.