On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:27:00AM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote: > Chris Withers wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > What are the alternatives to zc.buildout? > > > > I'm wondering before I plough into zc.buildout because I'm guessing > > other big projects have run into the problem of pinning certain versions > > of eggs, building "instance homes" for projects, using a mixture of > > "public" eggs and those that are private and for a specific project, etc > > and otherwise working round limitations in setuptools... > > The major competitor for mindshare is probably Ian Bicking's > 'virtualenv': it makes using 'easy_install' *really* easy, because you > are working in a sandbox.
And then there are people who combine zc.buildout with virtualenv. They solve slightly different problems: virtualenv isolates a sandbox from unknown and possibly broken stuff in your system-wide Python installation; zc.buildout automates downloading and building dependencies (which can be anything from pure Python packages to C libraries). Marius Gedminas -- 99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, fix one bug, compile it again... 101 little bugs in the code....
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