[Distutils] alternatives to zc.buildout?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:27:00AM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > What are the alternatives to zc.buildout?
> > 
> > I'm wondering before I plough into zc.buildout because I'm guessing 
> > other big projects have run into the problem of pinning certain versions 
> > of eggs, building "instance homes" for projects, using a mixture of 
> > "public" eggs and those that are private and for a specific project, etc 
> > and otherwise working round limitations in setuptools...
> 
> The major competitor for mindshare is probably Ian Bicking's
> 'virtualenv':  it makes using 'easy_install' *really* easy, because you
> are working in a sandbox.

And then there are people who combine zc.buildout with virtualenv.  They
solve slightly different problems: virtualenv isolates a sandbox from
unknown and possibly broken stuff in your system-wide Python
installation; zc.buildout automates downloading and building
dependencies (which can be anything from pure Python packages to C
libraries).

Marius Gedminas
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