Question

I am working with my friends on a Django project. The project has dependencies on some python modules. I have django and those additional dependencies installed inside a virtualenv. The code of the django project is in a repository accessible to all the friends who can checkout/clone and then contribute code to it. But is there a way to replicate the setup that I have in my development environment in my friends’ computers, i.e., something that will install all the additional dependencies and get the environment ready for deployment?

I have heard about zc.buildout. Just had a look at it without going too deep. It does appear complex. Are there other ways to achieve this? The development environments used by my friends vary from GNU/Linux to MS Windows.

Answer 1

buildout.cfg:

[buildout]
parts = python

[python]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
    your
    egg
    dependencies
    here
interpreter = python

Get bootstrap.py. Then:

$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout
$ bin/python ...