[Buildbot-devel] buildbot tutorial

Dustin J. Mitchell dustin at zmanda.com
Sat Aug 1 17:31:55 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Charles Lepple<clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only thing that's a little scary at first glance is the
> "virtualenv" dependency. When I think "virtualization", software
> packages like qemu and VirtualBox come to mind. From what it looks
> like, virtualenv only needs easy_install, so that might be a good
> thing to list in the commands.

This is a good point -- virtualenv is basically one .py file, so it's
fairly easy to install.  For example:
  http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2008/7/5/virtualenv-to-the-rescue
but I agree that the name suggests something much larger and gnarlier,
and probably warrants a "Don't worry!" in the tutorial.

Dustin

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