[Distutils] Need help with a usecase

[Tres Seaver]

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On 04/19/2011 03:46 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> On 18-04-11 16:32, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> It *is* possible with buildout in case you want to experiment :-)
> Put this in your buildout.cfg:
> 
> [buildout]
> develop = .
> parts = scripts
> 
> [scripts]
> recipe = zc.recipe.egg
> eggs = your-egg-name
> 
> Grab a bootstrap.py, run it and run bin/buildout.
> 
> 
> The one thing that, to me, still is a big advantage of buildout over 
> virtualenv in cases like this: you can just run the scripts in bin/* 
> as-is. You do not need to activate the virtualenv beforehand.

You don't ever *need* to activate a virtualenv to run its scripts -- you
just type 'bin/foo'  from the VE root, or '/path/to/VE/bin/foo' from
elsewhere.  After using VE for years, I have literally never used
activate, while using multiple VE's daily.


Tres.
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