On 18 Feb 2015 19:50, "Reinout van Rees" <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > Reinout van Rees http://reinout.vanrees.org/ > [email protected] http://www.nelen-schuurmans.nl/ > "Learning history by destroying artifacts is a time-honored atrocity" > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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