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Buildout is a tool which can used for any kind of applications, though it is more suitable for Python based applications. Buildout is a cool program which provides support for creating, assembling and deploying applications, especially Python applications. You can build applications using Buildout recipes. Recipes are Python programs which follows a pattern to build various parts of an application. For example, a recipe will install Python eggs and another one will install test runner etc. Applications can be assembled from multiple parts with different configurations. A part can be a Python egg or any other program. Buildout make use Python eggs and so setuptools. To install, Buildout just enter this command: easy_install zc.buildout (Of course, you should have installed easy_install to run this command)
I would like to share my default Buildout configuration ($HOME/.buildout/default.cfg) here:
These options are available for all buildouts in my system. Sure, I can override these options for individual buildouts. One of my earlier post had given hint for using simple buildouts. There, I used "./bin/buildout -N" to run the buildout. See yourself what -N do from help:
$ buildout --help
...
-N
Run in non-newest mode. This is equivalent to the assignment
buildout:newest=false. With this setting, buildout will not seek
new distributions if installed distributions satisfy it's
requirements.
...
So adding "newest=false" option helps to avoid the "-N" switch. IMO, this should be the default for buildout.
The "eggs-directory" option is really useful if you want to use multiple buildouts from same machine, especially when developing applications. If this option is not set each buildout will download and store all egg dependencies in it's own folder, by default "./eggs" directory in your buildout.
I set "find-links = http://download.zope.org/distribution/", because my normal buildouts are Zope 3 related, and Zope 3 project place all new eggs there. If this option is not set, buildout will fetch egg from Python's cheeseshop.
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