[Distutils] Need help with a usecase

[Reinout van Rees]

On 19-04-11 21:48, Tres Seaver wrote:
>> 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.

That's weird: I never noticed that I didn't need to activate it! It sure 
makes virtualenv much more useful. I feel quite silly for not noticing 
it before...

Reinout