Informal pole re: sandbox environments

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Tue Jul 31 08:21:57 UTC 2007


Previously Martijn Pieters wrote:
> 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.

Ah, that sounds right. It solves the problem of doing "easy_install
i18ndude" and suddenly all your plone instances no longer working.

Wichert.

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