Tag: buildout

Python

Added Selenium 2 support for collective.recipe.seleniumrc

I wanted to use the collective.recipe.seleniumrc buildout recipe to deploy Selenium RC, but quickly discovered that it didn't work with recent Selenium 2 versions, because the recipe assumes that downloads are .zip files with...

General

How to have a buildout config that extends another buildout config

Buildout is a pretty useful tool, but the documentation is somewhat lacking. I needed to have specialized buildouts for dev and staging that extend a more general buildout. I couldn't find this in the buildout docs, but I found...

DreamHost

Dropbox + glibc 2.4 buildout

I wrote a previous post on how I got Dropbox working on my DreamHost VPS. It was tricky because the DreamHost VPS had glibc 2.3 and the Dropbox binary needs glibc 2.4. Those instructions were somewhat complex and I've been...

ProgrammingPython

Fun with zc.buildout

I've been exploring zc.buildout (another link) lately. In the past, I've typically gone the simpler route of using virtualenv and pip, but I knew that buildout could do some powerful things and I've long wanted to kick the tires....