On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:37 PM, m h <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey Folks- >> >> This might be semi weird. I've got a client that wants to be able to >> run an application without installing per se. They've currently got >> everything checked into an SCM, > > Does SCM mean version control system?
Yes. > >> and want to be able to pull it down >> and type "make serve" and have the server start running. They are >> doing pure WSGI right now but would like to move to a web framework. >> >> Has anyone done something like this with Pylons? (ie have Pylons and >> it's dependencies in SCM, rather than having to install them). It >> looks like PIP with it's support for "editable" packages might work. >> Any suggestions? > > I would hesitate to put the entire virtualenv into version control > because the Python executable is a binary, there are symlinks from the > lib directory to the system Python, and also .so files (binary) in the > lib directory. These all will work only on the same computer, or at > least one with identical paths, OS, and Python version. > > You can set up a "make" command to create a virtualenv on the > destination system and install the application into it (using editable > as you said). > I want to avoid having to download anything from pypi (or the network other than the SCM). So I would think my options are to stuff it all in the SCM as virtualenv, or have a way to do local installs. cheers, -matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
