[Bug 585512] [NEW] Set up virtualenv (and ditch buildout?)

[Barry Warsaw]

Public bug reported:

Mailman 3 development needs more isolation from system Python.  Two
recent reports are semi-related:

* On Ubuntu systems that have been upgraded from Karmic to Lucid, there
is a bug in python-setuptools that causes buildout to fail with cryptic
error messages.  See bug 576434 and bug 585188 for related failures
(though not in Mailman).

* Strange import conflicts with system installed Mailman that are hard
to debug.  This is related to mailman.testing.i18n giving TypeErrors on
incorrect number of arguments when initializing flufl.i18n.

I think the fix is to make sure the build works with virtualenv.   Then
we have to decide whether it's still worth keeping the buildout
infrastructure for testing purposes.

** Affects: mailman
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Barry Warsaw (barry)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: mailman/3.0
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Barry Warsaw (barry)
         Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: mailman
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mailman
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: mailman
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Barry Warsaw (barry)

** Changed in: mailman
    Milestone: None => 3.0.0a6

** Also affects: mailman/3.0
   Importance: High
     Assignee: Barry Warsaw (barry)
       Status: Confirmed

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Set up virtualenv (and ditch buildout?)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585512
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