Martin Aspeli wrote: > Tres Seaver wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Chris Withers wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> > > >> The standard installs for repoze.zope2, repoze.grok, repoze.plone, etc. >> all assume a virtualenv, and add scripts which turn the vanilla >> virtualenv into an "instance." > > The problem I have with virtualenv - or rather, with raw setuptools > based solutions - is that it's difficult to uninstall eggs. With > buildout, once you remove the requirement/egg line and re-run buildout, > the egg is no longer installed.
I usually edit site-packages/easy_install.pth and delete the line that points to the egg. And either delete the egg, or not. > That said, I like virtualenv and use it a lot. I just think it solves a > slightly different use case from the "repeatable configuration > management system" one that buildout tries to solve. It does indeed handle uninstall which lots of other things don't. - C _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
