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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't recommend using system python anyway.

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

I don't quite understand. zopeproject works completely without needing 
bootstrap.py. After calling zopeproject, you end up with a completely 
bootstrapped *and* installed buildout sandbox.


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