[Distutils] Need help with a usecase

[Jim Fulton]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> > I'm new to Buildout and need to figure out how to accomplish a
>> > (seemingly)
>> > simple usecase: Install my project from source into an isolated
>> > environment.
>> > My project has a Distribute-based setup.py and I'd like to install it
>> > and
>> > its dependencies to an isolated environment. I gather this should be
>> > doable
>> > using Buildout, but how? I've experimented a bit and read the
>> > documentation
>> > on PyPi, but so far I have not succeeded.
>>
>> See:
>>
>>  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.sourcerelease
>>
>> You *might* also find:
>>
>>  http://www.riversnake.com/pycon2011/full/
>>
>> helpful, although it is linux oriented.
>
> Thanks for the info, Jim, but I honestly still don't see how to accomplish
> my usecase as a whole. The difference I see from the standard Buildout
> usecase is to install (with buildout) from a directory rather than to find a
> distribution at e.g. PyPI.

Maybe you should explain your use case more.  I guessed what you
meant. I was obviously wrong.

Jim

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