[Distutils] Platter: a virtualenv based multiwheel file format

[Nick Coghlan]

On 18 Feb 2015 19:50, "Reinout van Rees" <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
>
> Piotr Dobrogost schreef op 16-02-15 om 14:24:
> > 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?
> No, it isn't buildout-like.
>
> Buildout is extensible with recipes. This way it can write config files,
> install node modules, etc.
>
> Platter "only" has the possibility of a pre/post install script where
> you can/must doe all these extra tasks.
>
> It *might* be a replacement of buildout *for you*, but that depends on
> how you use buildout.

I haven't dug into platter in depth, but from a quick look, it seemed
closer to the "package up an entire virtualenv as a system package" model.

So it appears to be a neat and tidy way to transport an application from
your build servers through to production systems.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> Reinout
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