direnv VS Pipenv

I also made the export diff configurable, motivated by this post: https://github.com/direnv/direnv/pull/1233

Nice.

For years I've been using [direnv](https://direnv.net/) for this, setting environment variables which git picks up. This looks like a more feature complete equivalent, although to be honest I only really need switching of committer email and the SSH key used.

Direnv, for the uninitiated, loads and unloads environment variables when directories are entered and exited. Under every project folder there is a `$PROJ_DIR/.envrc` which contains:

buffer-env: A pure-Elisp version of the direnv utility. Useful to make Emacs aware of Python virtualenvs (which, judging by the questions posted here, is unfortunately still a complication for a lot of people). Similar to (and inspired by) envrc, but doesn't require the direnv program.

You can look at direnv to see this in action as they wrote shell hooks that get loaded into the shell profile and are executed on every prompt. https://direnv.net/

Yes, most Nix users employ https://direnv.net or the equivalent for your IDE of choice. Emacs for instance has https://github.com/purcell/envrc which set per-buffer variables.

The more applications I write, the more I tend to avoid typical config files in favor of using direnv [0] to set environment variables.

[0] https://direnv.net/

pipenv solves this by having both kinds of requirement files: Pipfile lists package names and known constraints on which versions can be used, while Pipfile.lock gives specific package versions with hashes. Theoretically the Pipfile (and its lockfile) format were supposed to be a standard that many different tools could use, but I haven't seen it get adopted much outside of pipenv itself, so I'm not sure if it's really going to catch on.

* Tons of longstanding bugs that fail to be resolved in any sort of timely manner like this one: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2413

I am sick and tired of the python packaging space pushing this godawful tool for Python. Please just use pip-tools or poetry instead.

ℹ️ You may use a different virtual environment manager like Pipenv or poetry.

Hey lua would you mind looking at this question for me? https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/discussions/5411

Alternatively, you can look into Pipenv, which has a lot more tools to develop secure applications with.

https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/releases https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=pipenv (pipenv-2021.5.29-7.fc35 for the current Fedora release)