Tres Seaver wrote:
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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.
The standard installs for repoze.zope2, repoze.grok, repoze.plone, etc. all assume a virtualenv, and add scripts which turn the vanilla virtualenv into an "instance."
The problem I have with virtualenv - or rather, with raw setuptools based solutions - is that it's difficult to uninstall eggs. With buildout, once you remove the requirement/egg line and re-run buildout, the egg is no longer installed. That said, I like virtualenv and use it a lot. I just think it solves a slightly different use case from the "repeatable configuration management system" one that buildout tries to solve. Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book