On 2026-04-08 14:38, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
We really only are in a position to provide good support for installations via pip, from the most recent release or from git HEADs. The virtualenv install is preferred, but as long as you provide the installation paths from mailman.cfg, we'll be able to give good support. Everything else is "we'll try, maybe you'll get lucky".
Stephen, would a prebuilt LXD-style container or VM that is respun quarterly but is still a base virtualenv setup based on Ubuntu 24.04 and otherwise fully 'setup' except for actual domain configs, etc. be useful here as an 'alternative' to 'do it yourself' but still work as a full venv setup?
That way, anyone who wants to use it would just be able to hit 'go' with
a VM image (in my case a QEMU-based image) and then be able to launch a
'base' venv setup already 'ready to go' and then just run the standard
'update installation' step of pip update or whatever?
Just wondering if that'd be a useful thing to provide - not a Docker image or such, but a fully ready-to-go VM image for a virtualenv setup, ready for production usage.
Thomas