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Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

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Date 2014-10-14 00:50 +1100
Subject Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.14823.1413208236.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 13, 2014 1:24:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> > Hearing a bit about docker nowadays.
>> > Here's why its supposedly better than a VM:
>> > https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/
>> > Downsides?? No idea!
>
>> One obvious downside is that it doesn't allow guests to modify the OS
>> at all. A VM gives you an entire OS, so you can use and manipulate
>> anything. If you don't *need* all that flexibility, then a VM is
>> paying an unnecessary cost, ergo Docker will have no downside.
>
> Was talking of more pragmatic downsides eg "Does it really work?" :-)
> [Docker is still quite new]

Ah, I can't help you there. I've never used Docker.

ChrisA

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what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-12 13:33 +0000
  Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-12 19:31 -0700
    Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 18:54 +1100
      Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 01:00 -0700
        Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 00:50 +1100
        Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-16 08:32 +0000

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