15 engineers on Hacker News describe using virtualenv first-hand: 8 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Other than that, it's virtualenvs all the way.”
endorse · personal · arcanemachiner · 2024-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've always had bad experiences with virtualenv etc.”
regret · personal · hobofan · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using pyenv+virtualenv to isolate project environments for years now and it works just fine.”
endorse · personal · black-tea · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using virtualenv/pip for years and it always served me very well. Made development, testing, and deployment easier.”
endorse · production · d0m · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use virtualenv and pip extensively here, with virtualenvwrapper. It just works.”
endorse · production · kevcampb · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“just running "virtualenv env" again or just removing and recreating it”
endorse · personal · StavrosK · 2013-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a Ubuntu box for development and rvm/bundler, virtualenv/pip...cover my needs”
endorse · personal · irahul · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With virtualenv, github, fabric, etc., deploying isn't as much of a challenge as it used to be”
endorse · personal · bmelton · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used virtualenv extensively for production deployment in a large environment (100+ servers)... I haven't seen any other way to reliably do this.”
endorse · production · scottyallen · 2011-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use virtualenvs and pyenv extensively, but even without that”
neutral · personal · rcarmo · 2022-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switched to virtualenv in my ec2 deployments (because all the tutorials used it).”
neutral · production · wuliwong · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using virtualenv for years and if I want to freeze my dependencies”
neutral · personal · coleifer · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run Python (with virtualenv or Buildout)”
neutral · production · Scarblac · 2015-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On the app end we just build a new virtualenv, and launch. If something fails, we switch back to the old virtualenv.”
neutral · production · sophacles · 2015-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“just install them in a virtualenv using pip.”
neutral · personal · GeneralMaximus · 2010-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?