[Buildbot-devel] buildbot tutorial

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 13:31 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> 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.


I'll add a disclaimer.

I do not want to suggest using easy_install to install virtualenv
however.  easy_install out of the box tries to install system-wide, and
it is my personal opinion that you should not recommend users to install
stuff systemwide behind the back of a package manager.

Thomas

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