Re:Python's New Package Landscape
by hcrisp on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:44PM
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He's not saying that you _should_ install conda within a virtualenv, but that some have tried with some success.
At the end, one of his conclusions is: "If you want to install Python packages within an Isolated environment, pip+virtualenv and conda+conda-env are mostly interchangeable". So don't change if you don't have to.
But he does give reasons why conda may be superior to virtualenv -- managing different version of Python, tracking non-Python dependencies, true isolation of environments, etc.
At the end, one of his conclusions is: "If you want to install Python packages within an Isolated environment, pip+virtualenv and conda+conda-env are mostly interchangeable". So don't change if you don't have to.
But he does give reasons why conda may be superior to virtualenv -- managing different version of Python, tracking non-Python dependencies, true isolation of environments, etc.