Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
whit wrote:
Martin Aspeli wrote:
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
This is awesome, and by that I don't mean the fact that we have a
plone buildout, but that we actually have Zope 2 recipes for
buildout. I hope they can be moved to svn.zope.org for further
development to benefit the whole Zope 2 community.
I believe this is just a matter of contrib agreements being sorted
out (Hanno?). I guess I need to get mine sorted out as well if I'm
going to keep working on this when it moves... :-/
I also see that workingenv was abandoned. That's very good to hear
because buildout has a lot of machinery for installing eggs already,
it would just've been duplicated with workingenv...
is there some advantage to the way that buildout handles eggs over
workingenv. as I understand it, workingenv *only* handles python setup
and does that well and transparently.
The point is that buildout *already* handles eggs. There's really no
point for having an extra layer on top of buildout. The zc.recipe.egg
recipe can install any egg (as a development one or not) in an automated
fashion, which is exactly what you'd want from a buildout.
honestly, it seems to me that buildout tries to do too much. it's trying to
handle both repeatable deployment recipes AND providing a sandbox within which
to run things. there may not be a point to having an extra layer on top of
buildout, but buildout sure does seem to me a bit heavy if all i want is a
sandbox. so now i have to learn the workingenv way if i just need a sandbox,
but i have to learn the buildout way if i also want repeatable deployments?
>>> Workingenv made it more complex than it needed to be (or buildout
as stated before, I don't mind using zc.buildout, but I don't want to
have to learn zc.buildout to use it meaningfully in my existing setup.
If a buildout recipes could be executed by themselves(like
buildout-zope2, buildout-deliverance, buildout-squid) as well as by
aggregated recipes. This would make buildout a killer tool inside my
workingenv rather than a choice I had to make between two technologies.
As said already, I think once you've got buildout, there's no need for
workingen, except if you think that "Zope stinks" ;)
this is shortsighted, IMO. i know zope quite well, but i bounced off of
buildout b/c it required too much knowledge to even get started. i think it's
much more likely that people from the greater python community will pick up
and start using workingenv than they will zc.buildout.
personally, i like chris mcdonough's approach with his buildit package. it
does two things:
- it retrieves files from anywhere on the 'net (cvs, svn, tarball, whatever)
and puts them where you want them on your target machine(s)
- it launches external scripts that then perform whatever final configuration
you may want to perform.
buildit is also recipe driven, and it's smart enough to pick up where it left
off on a previous run, a'la make. i'd guess that you could use buildit and
workingenv to accomplish pretty much everything you can do w/ zc.buildout, and
you wouldn't have to bend your brain so much to do so.
-r
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