[pypy-svn] pypy default: Add section on using virtualenv.

[lac]

Author: Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se>
Branch: 
Changeset: r41781:5c4aa3c1d45f
Date: 2011-02-10 16:14 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/5c4aa3c1d45f/

Log:	Add section on using virtualenv.

diff --git a/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt b/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt
--- a/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt
+++ b/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,23 @@
 If you want to commit to our repository on bitbucket, you will have to
 install subversion in addition to mercurial.
 
+Installing using virtualenv
+---------------------------
+
+It is often convenient to run pypy inside a virtualenv.  To do this
+you need a recent version of virtualenv -- 1.5 or greater.  You can
+then install PyPy both from a precompiled tarball or from a mercurial
+checkout::
+
+	# from a tarball
+	$ virtualenv -p /opt/pypy-c-jit-41718-3fb486695f20-linux/bin/pypy my-pypy-env
+
+	# from the mercurial checkout
+	$ virtualenv -p /path/to/pypy/pypy/translator/goal/pypy-c my-pypy-env
+
+Note that bin/python is now a symlink to bin/pypy.
+
+
 Where to go from here
 ----------------------