On 1/17/22 23:31, Kirill Ratkin wrote: > Hi Grant > > Hmmm... definitly you are right in particular solution. > > But Ok, let me show example. > > > I often use Go in parallel with Python and sometimes I switch between > Windows/Linux also. On both systems I just download Go toolset as > tarball/zip file and unpack in place where I like. > > The point here is Go toolset officially distributed as tarball/zip for > all supported operating system. This is not PortableGo or WinGo or some > anther third party Go distribution. This is one of supported way do get > Go toolset. > > On Windows I put toolset on separate drive 'D:\Go' and on linux - > $HOME/.local/go > > And I set up several environment variables (doing 'setx' on Windows and > edit .profile on linux): GOPATH, GOROOT, GOCACHE, ... and modify my PATH. > > Now I can build any Go project. I don't care about which Go compiler was > set on OS (Linux or Windows) before. I just unpack tarball/zip in place > where I have permissions and use it.
The part of this that is Set up Environment Variables and PATH can be handled by Python's virtualenvs. You create one starting from a possibly local Python layout, or from a system one, and the virtualenv handles all the "fiddling" so while that env is active, just "python" and "pip" work for that environment. A nice way to manage this is through a project called pyenv. There is now a Windows port of this so it can work there as well (I've never used it on WIndows, personally). So while there may not currently be a zip/tar archive you can unpack and go, I can get started quite easily on a new version. Let's say I decidded I needed to test something on Python 3.7 but my main Python is already 3.10: pyenv install -l | grep "3\.7" ... list of available versions that contain 3.7 pyenv install 3.7.12 # sets up 3.7.12 in pyenv's local versions tree pyenv virtualenv 3.7.12 venv-3712 # create virtualenv using 3.7.12 as base pyenv activate venv-3712 and now I'm running inside a virtualenv using 3.7.12, which I can now provision for the work I want to do... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list