[wxPython-users] Multi-version installs, happyness?, feedback please!

[Christopher Barker]

I think this thread has been beaten to death, and in any case, it looks 
like I can do what I want now any (thanks Robin). But I do have one 
useful thing to add (skip to the bottom now...)

Kevin Ollivier wrote:
>> now THAT's a lot of work!!
> 
> Setting up a new user account and installing Python with a few 
> extensions on it?

That's not much work, but then you also need to get the code to the 
stuff you need to test in the new account, and keep in it sync (not bad, 
as I use SVN for most stuff anyway). But another issue is that I always 
install packages into the system python so a different user is using the 
same thing anyway, and I know it can be a pain (though not that much of 
one) to install stuff locally to a user.

So all in all, this still looks like more work than changing a couple 
characters in a script.

Maybe this could be helpful, though:

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/workingenv.py

make testing environment, and away you go. Probably good for testing 
different combinations of of separate packages too. (MPL 0.7 and 0.9 
with wxPython2.6 and 2.8, for instance)

-Chris

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