buildout - siggame/discuss GitHub Wiki
We use buildout to make our development environment more portable. Instead of installing packages system-wide, buildout will install all packages within the project. Additionally, we can pin down the versions of packages that we're using to ensure that we're not affected by package upgrades.
Getting started with Buildout
Prerequisites
- Instal packages
- Make (Probably already installed)
- Try running
make. If it doesn't work,sudo apt-get install make
- Try running
- Packages listed in
buildout.cfg's comment header- They're listed at the top of this file
- Make (Probably already installed)
Setting up
- Change into your
discuss/directory - Run
make- Downloads
bootstrap.py, which can install Buildout for us - Runs buildout, which sets up your environment
- Downloads
Whenever there are changes to buildout.cfg or versions.cfg, you'll need to rerun make. This will put your development environment in the same place as everyone else.