On Feb 10, 2008, at 2:01 PM, 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.
Cool! Obviously, you can work with me on this. One thing to understand about buildout is that it is oriented toward distributing applications vs easy_install/setuptools with is aimed more at distributing libraries. At ZC, we use buildout to create development environments. We also use buildout to create self-contained source-releases and rpms for deploying out *applications* to out deployment environments in ways that facilitate *operation* by experienced Unix system administrators. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation