[Zope3-Users] Re: zopeproject 0.4: using without easy_installing, egg-info error

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> I would like to use zopeproject without easy_installing zopeproject and
> dependencies into the system python.

Yes, I've run into that before as well. As Stefan already pointed out, 
virtualenv [1] is great way to create a "virtual" Python installation 
that behaves like a Python installation except that it's just a bunch of 
symlinks and *won't* modify the global installation.

This is how I do it (virtualenv.py is from the virtualenv tarball):

  $ python virtualenv.py env
  ...
  $ cd env
  $ bin/easy_install zopeproject
  ...
  $ bin/zopeproject HelloWorld


[1] http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

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