Posts tagged Buildout

Last time I mentioned that running bin/buildout with the -N flag makes it run faster (since it skips looking for newer versions to upgrade). You can tell buildout to do this by default by putting 'newest = false' into the [buildout] section of buildout.cfg. We'll be running bin/buildout a lot now, since we'll be making changes to the project environment, so this will save wear and tear on the '-', 'N' and Shift keys.

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.