Informal pole re: sandbox environments

Martijn Pieters mj at zopatista.com
Tue Jul 31 08:19:13 UTC 2007


On 7/31/07, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> Previously Martin Aspeli wrote:
> > I can't see a very good reason to have a buildout inside a workingenv.
> > Why would you want that?
>
> It came up on zope-dev or zope3-dev recently and I remember thinking
> 'this may very well be really useful'. I can't remember why though.

I believe the advantage was that you isolate your buildout from the
global site-packages, avoiding any side-effects of installed packages
there.

-- 
Martijn Pieters




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