What didn’t you like about it? I am just curious; I finally stepped out of using Debian for everything which I have been doing for approximately 200 years, and tried NixOS, and to me it is incredibly nice the way it solves a lot of these issues.
When I tried it it looked really cool. Up until it just… didn’t work. And then looking around I found a bunch of people giving me better snippets of scripts and it was not helpful
But given I just need docker and nothing more, I did not bother and looked further
IDK man, my experience is that Nix solves the problem you originally talked about and a bunch of others, pretty effectively. Among other things if things “just… don’t work” you can trivially roll back to an earlier working config, and see what changed between working and not-working, and so what would be a pretty grueling debugging process in some other environment becomes pretty easy to sort out.
But whatever. If for some reason Docker makes you more happy and not less, you’re welcome to it and best of luck.
Solved problem. Python virtual environments. Or install another python version with your package manager and make sure the python script calls it in the shebang instead of a generic /usr/bin/env python.
Tried it, but some apps depend on spawning other python processes. Half the time that results in them breaking out of the env cuz they’re using the python in the system path
Alright, I want two apps that depend on two different version of python, but won’t work on the other.
No warning, no notice, just one of the two fails to start. Thank you package manager
venv or nix
These are 2014 problems
Tried both, didn’t like 'm, using docker now
yay python31{0…2}
Or three docker containers
And that’s why nix exists.
I tried it, ye. And although I like the concept, I can’t say the implementation was to my liking
What didn’t you like about it? I am just curious; I finally stepped out of using Debian for everything which I have been doing for approximately 200 years, and tried NixOS, and to me it is incredibly nice the way it solves a lot of these issues.
When I tried it it looked really cool. Up until it just… didn’t work. And then looking around I found a bunch of people giving me better snippets of scripts and it was not helpful
But given I just need docker and nothing more, I did not bother and looked further
Huh.
IDK man, my experience is that Nix solves the problem you originally talked about and a bunch of others, pretty effectively. Among other things if things “just… don’t work” you can trivially roll back to an earlier working config, and see what changed between working and not-working, and so what would be a pretty grueling debugging process in some other environment becomes pretty easy to sort out.
But whatever. If for some reason Docker makes you more happy and not less, you’re welcome to it and best of luck.
Solved problem. Python virtual environments. Or install another python version with your package manager and make sure the python script calls it in the shebang instead of a generic
/usr/bin/env python.Tried it, but some apps depend on spawning other python processes. Half the time that results in them breaking out of the env cuz they’re using the python in the system path
So change the shebang to explicitly reference the venv python.