[Distutils] Platter: a virtualenv based multiwheel file format

[Piotr Dobrogost]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Armin Ronacher just published a new utility for creating prebuilt virtualenv
> tarballs called "platter": http://platter.pocoo.org/dev/


>From https://github.com/mitsuhiko/platter/ :

"Platter is a utility for Python that simplifies deployments on Unix servers.
  It's a thin wrapper around pip, virtualenv and wheel and aids in creating
  packages that can install without compiling or downloading on servers."

Am I right in thinking this is modern counterpart of buildout?


Regards,
Piotr Dobrogost