Questions on virtual environment

[dev-abir]

Why the project directory needs to be a virtualenv? I have my virtualenv elsewhere.

I am not very experienced in python, is it a convention just to put virtualenv in the project directory, and gitignore/delete them manually later?(I don't think so...)

To get path of virtualenv, one can just use VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable, it is much robust(though I am not sure whether it works with all virtual environment packages or not). Moreover should we enforce everyone to use a virtualenv?

[mbideau]

Hi @dev-abir,

The project directory doesn't have to be a Python virtualenv at all.
You can have your Python virtualenv wherever you want.

It is not a convention to mix the virtualenv and the sources, it might even be a bad practice, but I put it like that in the README because it is convenient/easy to setup this way.

I don't think it is worth mentioning in the README that the Python virtualenv can be elsewhere because I think that most experienced Python user will know how to customize their Python environment.

What do you think ?
Did it break your user experience or make it really hard to make the program to work ?

Again, thank you for your feedback 🙏

[dev-abir]

I just needed to change just 2 lines to run run_some_tests.sh, nothing else

The script assumes that the source directory is the virtualenv... And spits errors, if not so...

You can just change python_bin="$project_dir"/bin/python3 to python_bin="$VIRTUAL_ENV"/bin/python3 to make it more robust.

[mbideau]

I changed the path of the python3 binary according to your suggestion in commit 9161038.

Can you test your setup with it and tell me if it is okay for you ?

Thank you in advance 🙏

[dev-abir]

I have added some comments on your commit see this

Not sure, if it's the right place... Maybe I should have told that here...