On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:29:28PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:51:00PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: >>> Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>>> Virtualenv allows you to create an isolated environment to install >>>> some distribution without polluting the >>>> main site-packages, a bit like a user site-packages. >>> ...as does buildout, and these are the right type of solution to >>> this problem. >>> >> where type of problem == sandboxed environment, sure. How do you solve the >> problem for system packagers? > > What's to stop a system packager either just running the buildout on > install, or running the buildout at package build time and then just > dropping the resulting environment wherever they want to install > applications? Such a package would only be dependent on the right python > version at runtime... > If buildout creates sandboxed environments like virtualenv then everything here applies:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries You can also listen/watch the talk I gave at PyCon which is linked from that page: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/2072580/ If it doesn't create sandboxed environments, then you'll need to give me about a paragraph explaining what it does do. -Toshio
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