Re: ReportLab 3.x packaging and deployment

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 January 2014 11:00, Marius Gedminas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It would be awesome if I could sudo apt-get install python-reportlab and
>> then somehow make it available in selected virtualenvs, but that's a
>> discussion for another list.
>
> Dumb questions but can't you...
>
> 1. sudo apt-get install python-reportlab
> 2. create a virtualenv with no site packages
> 3. make a symlink from the venv's site-packages to the system reportlab?

Probably not advisable, but I have done similar trickery in the past.
It can be made to work, however, with any C extensions involved
(as in ReportLab) this can only work if the virtualenv is using the
same version of Python as the system python.

Peter