[users at bb.net] buildbot --version failing

[Jim Rowan]

On Oct 26, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Wink Saville <wink at saville.com> wrote:

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> Although way premature at this point, running a background service like continuous integration in a virtualenv seems clumsy. I suspect I'm missing something.

It’s an ideal production practice, because it provides a level of isolation that isn’t otherwise available.   It allows you to decide independently what python packages to make available, when to update, and to what version.   Plus, compared to “other container systems”, it’s lightweight.

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> I'm feeling using docker or other container system might be a better approach, but I don't know anything about them either :)