Thanks guys. I have sent you both emails offline. On Feb 10, 2008, at 3:33 PM, zooko wrote:
> > On Feb 10, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > >> >> On Feb 10, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Noah Gift wrote: >>> In reference to this rather long discussion. I would love to get an >>> interview or case study on buildout in the scope of package >>> management for Python for the book I am co-authoring on Python For >>> *nix Systems Administration. >> >> Cool! > > Yeah! > >> One thing to understand about buildout is that it is oriented toward >> distributing applications vs easy_install/setuptools with is aimed >> more at distributing libraries. > > For comparison, at http://allmydata.org, we are using eggs plus > py2exe, py2app, etc. to build applications to deploy to end users, > but we are using Debian packages to deploy applications to system > administrators. > > Our set of tools is working well enough, but there are clearly > places where they aren't mature yet. For example we don't use an > automated tool to produce .deb's from our setup.py or from > our .egg's, but instead have a separately-maintained Debian build. > Likewise py2exe and py2app don't naturally manage our own code > (which is built by setuptools) and our dependencies (which are > mostly but not all packaged as eggs) as smoothly as we would like, > but they work. > > Regards, > > Zooko Noah Gift / http://noahgift.com [Python+Grok+AJAX+Mashup] _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
