[Distutils] Need help with a usecase

Arve Knudsen arve.knudsen at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 17:20:42 CEST 2011


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe you should explain your use case more.  I guessed what you
> >> meant. I was obviously wrong.
> >
> > My project (checked out from Git to be specific) comes with a
> > Distribute-based setup.py, and I'd like to install it into an isolated
> > Python environment. That is, the equivalent of running 'python
> > setup.py.install' in my project directory, but into an isolated
> environment.
> > I was hoping I could use Buildout for this.
>
> Your specific requirements is better matched by virtualenv.


Aha. I appreciate the clear answer :)

Arve
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