[Distutils] Isolation, virtualenvs and buildout

[Achim Domma]

Hi,

I'm used to virtualenvs and I think I understood the general idea of build out. I need to build a pice of software out of several independent Python packages and I think buildout is the tool to use. But I don't get how buildout and virtualenv are related to each other. Asking Google, I found some hints that buildout is supposed to provide the same kind of isolation as virtualenvs - but only in the "old" 1.x version. The "new"(?) 2.0 version will change that. So I'm totally confused and ask for help.

My use case is simple: I have some python modules on our private pypi server and would like to deploy a pice of software composed out of them (including all dependencies).

Any starting guidance would be very appreciated!

cheers,
Achim