[Distutils] alternatives to zc.buildout?

[Tres Seaver]

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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."


Trse.
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