A script for managing Python versions. This tool lets you keep all of your development versions of Python in a single location that is accessible even without root privileges. Hydra lets you bootstrap a new development machine quickly and painlessly, with as few dependencies as possible and without ever reaching into sudo territory.
With pip:
> pip install hydrapy
> hydra version
Your current version of hydra is 0.0.1.To install hydra from source, it is only necessary to put the hydra script into a directory that's in your PATH. Once there, you'll have full access to everything hydra can do.
Optionally, since PATH's are usually in only root-accessible, you can simply source $PATH/TO/HYDRA/SCRIPT in your .bashrc or from the terminal to load the script.
> hydra install [version]Installs the specified version of Python into your HYDRA_HOME, which by default is $HOME/.hydra. For instance, calling hydra install 2.7.6 will download and compile Python-2.7.6 into a directory called 2.7.6 in HYDRA_HOME. The Python executable will be available in the bin subdirectory.
> hydra uninstall [version]Uninstalls the specified version of Python from your HYDRA_HOME. For instance, calling hydra uninstall 2.7.6 will delete the directory called 2.7.6 from HYDRA_HOME. If a virtualenv is found to be using links to libraries or modules in that directory, confirmation of the deletion will be required.
> hydra listLists all versions of Python installed using hydra. An optional -a or --all flag may be passed in to list all available versions of Python that may be installed.
> hydra versionPrints the version of hydra currently installed.
> hydra helpDisplays the list of available commands and further usage guidelines.
It is highly recommended that hydra be used in conjunction with virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper.
Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests. Features can be requested using issues. All code, comments, and critiques are greatly appreciated.