Noah Gift wrote:
In reference to this rather long discussion. I would love to get an interview or case study on buildout in the scope of package management for Python for the book I am co-authoring on Python For *nix Systems Administration. If there is an official ambassador, I would love to talk to that person, to make sure I do it justice. That particular chapter will cover eggs, virtualenv, and buildout, so I pretty excited about it, although is the toughest chapter in the book so far.
I don't know that many people have used this (or know about it), but I added a command to buildutils (http://knowledgetap.com/hg/buildutils/) to do "python setup.py bundle", which takes a package and all its dependencies and puts them together, with a script that adds all the dependencies. It's like what zc.buildout does mechanically, but intended to be used more like py2exe. I think it'd fit the model of managing Python commands and scripts pretty well. Ian