ActiveState Platform: How to revert to a previous commit

Ever inadvertently corrupted your Python environment and had to reinstall it? Good news: the ActiveState Platform saves a snapshot of each change to your environment so you simply revert to a working version at any time.

Any time you make changes to your Python, Perl, or Tcl environment, you can save your new configuration and optionally add a description so you identify why you made the modification.

This video shows how you can save and restore environment configurations on the ActiveState Platform. Reverting to an older configuration will fully restore it, including all packages and dependencies (plus OS-level dependencies) that were originally added to that configuration, even if they are no longer publicly available!

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At ActiveState, we use the Platform to build not only our popular open source language distributions, but also custom runtimes for our enterprise clients (i.e. builds containing just the language and packages their project requires). Try it out yourself or get a demo and understand how it can support your enterprise’s open source needs.