Question

Is there a way to run Pinax without virtualenv?

I want to run it without virtualenv as I want to run it on a django-container on mediatemples grid-hosting service. Their containers can scale upto 1Gb of dedicated memory, so I wouldnt have to worry about my own VPS or scaling issues. But their response was:

” because of the way the DjangoContainer works, you won’t be able to configure your server to use your virtualenv. Essentially the DjangoContainer is a virtualized server (to which you don’t have access other than the AccountCenter tools, or the ‘mtd’ command line tool) with the specific purpose of serving your Django applications. It mounts your django container folder so that it has your application code, but you cannot modify the version or location of python it uses. This probably means you’ll have to use Pinax without virtualenv support, as the general idea of using virtualenv in this way would be to create a custom environment for your Pinax application, which as I mentioned here is impossible to instruct the server to use. “

Answer 1

As of 0.9a1, Pinax can be used without pinax-boot.py which was the virtualenv dependency (we bundled it). Requirements are project-level and must be installed with pip. However, setup_project does enforce a virtual environment when installing requirements (it calls pip for you as a convenience; I would be open to not enforcing a virtual environment here). You can pass --no-reqs to setup_project forcing it to skip dependency installation. You can then run pip yourself and install it however you like.