Alternative installation support / instructions

[ericfrederich]

Many prefer to keep their OS Python install clean of any 3rd party packages.
For others it's not even a choice as they don't have sudo access.

It would be nice to have instructions for an unprivileged user to get pipenv on their PATH in some way.

This seems hacky but it seems to work...

System with Python 3

python3 -m venv ~/bin/_pipenv
source ~/bin/_pipenv/bin/activate
pip install pipenv
ln -s ~/bin/_pipenv/bin/pipenv ~/bin

System with Python2 and virtualenv

virtualenv ~/bin/_pipenv2
source ~/bin/_pipenv2/bin/activate
pip install pipenv
ln -s ~/bin/_pipenv2/bin/pipenv ~/bin/pipenv2

[silvus]

pipsi install pipenv ?

Pipsi

What does it do? pipsi is a wrapper around virtualenv and pip which installs scripts provided by python packages into separate virtualenvs to shield them from your system and each other.

pipsi installs each package into ~/.local/venvs/PKGNAME and then symlinks all new scripts into ~/.local/bin.

[kennethreitz]

I think sticking to what we have currently is best — this is a tool like pip.