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A comment on PEP 427 – The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0. Parent comment

Re:PEP 427 – The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0 by michaelhoffman on Saturday February 16, 2013 @02:31PM (#5232663)
Only if you want to limit the people who can install your software to those with one of the package managers and configurations you target, and who have root.
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Re:PEP 427 – The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0 by dalke on Saturday February 16, 2013 @02:51PM (#5232732)
To give a specific example of what michaelhoffman wrote, I have multiple Python virtual installations because my full regression suite tests for about 12 different installation possibilities, including for nice error reporting if a given module isn't installed.

There's no way to do that using the standard package managers, except by the much more complicated solution of having multiple OS instances available.

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