Tres Seaver wrote:
I recommend virtualenv to anybody who just wants to install and run the Zope2 appserver, without needing to drink a lot of "kool-aid":
How do you get them using the set of eggs specified in the appropriate versions.cfg using this recommendation?
Activate is a completely unnecessary attractive nuisacne: I *never* use it, and I routinely see people who *do* use it end up running from different environments than the ones they think they are running.
Right, so how do I avoid it? Is that in your new Zope 2 docs?
The self-contained mode is likely *perfect* for developers who produce a highly-customized bundle o Zope, 3rd party software, and custom code. It just isn't right as the "first choice" for somebody installing Zope for the first time.
I fail to see why not. It's a simple 2 step recipe for them: - checkout - run buildout I was even going to wrap this up into a zope2instance.py script, but I ran out of time... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk