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Re:Python Wheels by e12e on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:07PM (#10001249)
Ruby does not (IMNHO) have a more pleasant packaging experience, no (although, the inverse may be true - I think writing a proper gem -- and listing/uploading it -- is probably easier than a proper python package, and pushing that to pypi).

Python's virtualenv is a lot more stable than the various hoops one goes through with eg rvm. On the other hand, if you needed/wanted to use more than python2.7/python3.4 -- it might be a bit harder to juggle many python versions than it is to juggle many ruby versions with rvm.

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Re:Python Wheels by Nullabillity on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @02:26AM (#10001958)
I thought virtualenv was more comparable to bundler than rvm?
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Re:Python Wheels by e12e on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:12AM (#10002177)
Yes, that's probably right. But is there a good way to have several instances of say, ruby2.2 but with a different gemset outside of nvm?
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Re:Python Wheels by e12e on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @02:31PM (#10005283)
Probably the main difference is that you rarely really need "many" versions of python -- and hopefully one won't really need "many" versions of ruby (as much) any more either.

So the problem bundler/venv solves becomes a solution to 95% of the entire problem, rather than just 50%.

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