[Distutils] repeatable and updatable virtualenv

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:59, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Saint Germain wrote:
>>
>> I'm currently trying more or less the same thing by combining buildout
>> with virtualenv and pip.
>
> This doesn't seem like a sane thing to do.

Sure it does. It's just not very useful in most cases. Buildout by
itself works fine to isolate the python installation from the stuff
installed.
But if you want to also isolate the buildout from what's installed in
the python, then you can use virtualenv for that.

Unusual usecase, but sane. :)