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

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 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

The other difficulty is that my system (Gentoo ~x86) is python-2.5, and so
I am obliged to use the non-system python in any case. The above would
work for this.

Is there a pro/con list to including a bootstrap.py in zopeproject for the
other way of using buildout?

Thanks.