a blog by Marius Gedminas

Posts tagged Buildout

Starting a Pylons project with zc.buildout

For software development I prefer buildout to virtualenv. This is because buildout has a text file describing the state of your working environent, which can be versioned and used later to recreate it, as well as during development to modify the environment slightly. To start a new Pylons project, first create an empty directory. Let's call our new project AlliterationSharing1, because everybody is sick of 'foo' and 'bar'. 1 Generated by randomly picking two words from /usr/share/dict/words, then chosen over among 120 other variants that weren't as good.