PyAtl presents: A Brief Introduction to Buildout (January 2008)

[@arvydasruibys]

very awesome tutorial, really helpful and easy to understand! thank you!

[@meowmeowmotherpucker]

Thanks for the great tutorial! A little quiet though, maybe you can tune up your volume in the future.

[@MikeyD64]

This was a really great intro to buildout. Allowed me to understand things. I did not have the interpreter piece, and was wondering why I couldn't import my newer libs or add them to my path in the default interpreter. I get now that it's meant to be a separated environment. If this gains traction at work, we can merely add the this to the PATH or just deploy the buildout folder.

[@BrandonRhodes]

I am glad you found it useful! Note that today both virtual environments and Anaconda environments are even more popular than buildout used to be, and they avoid some problems that buildout had if you went from having dozens to having hundreds of packages you were dependent on.

[@Tritium21]

Great archeology, this is. It would be a great piece of information, if eggs and buildout where the tools of choice for the past 4 years :)

[@MikeyD64]

what did you use to create the slides?

[@BrandonRhodes]

Good question! They are a plain text file that I opened in Emacs. Inside the file, I used form feed (control-L) characters to separate slides, and at the bottom of the file I put: Local variables: mode:text mode:page End: since "page" mode shows only one page at a time (where a "page" = the content between two form feeds) and lets me move between them with PgUp and PgDown.