Working in Virtual Environments

Working in Virtual Environments

SPECtate uses pipenv to manage python installs and dependencies.

There's a fairly straightforward wiki here, which is more or less the GitHub readme with some additional comments from the maintainers.

The whole idea boils down to:

• You want to know what to install
• You want to know what versions to require
• You want builds and installs to be deterministic (no chance for setup failure)
• You don't want to manage all the details that require the above to work

pipenv more or less works as a yarn or a dep for python, providing lockfiles and install commands for easy setup.

Basic Workflow

1. Clone the repo
2. pipenv shell - drops you into a shell where you're using SPECtate's version of python and its dependencies
3. pipenv check - ensures you have everything you need (resolve conflicts, error on wrong versions of python, etc)

Installing additional packages is as easy as pipenv install <package>. pipenv --help can give you more information and specifics, if you need to do something more involved.