[Tutor] Suggested source code folder layout

[Walker Hale IV]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Allen Fowler<allen.fowler at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> My 2 cents...
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>> 1) Since you are describing your source code layout, any virtual
>> environment should be outside. A virtual environment (virtualenv) is
>> part of deployment and not part of source. If you need to make a
>> reproducible deployment environment, then you need a deployment system
>> such as zc.buildout. You would store just the recipe for the
>> environment in source, but not the resulting buildout. Your build
>> recipe will typically go in the top of your source tree.
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>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/
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> Good point about keeping the virtualenv out of the source tree in favor of "recipe", and copying the modules to lib or site-packages upon deployment.
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> zc.buildout seems like a powerful tool, but I'm not at all clear on how to use it for this sort of task. (All the tutorials I can find to seem to zope related.)
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> Do you have any examples you can share?

Heh heh. I guess the documentation at that URL is ... um ... utterly
incomprehensible to anyone not intimately familiar with Buildout. I've
only played with Buildout a little bit, and I couldn't make sense of
it. I suppose if you read it with a magnifying glass, you would
eventually figure out what you need.

OK... Go here: http://www.buildout.org/screencasts.html

Watch the first screencast. Things will start making sense then.

-- 
Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv at gmail.com>