Introduction
This buildout is a collection of configurations to make it easy to compile various Python versions with or without the necessary dependencies.
The default buildout.cfg configuration is for Mac OS X Leopard, because that's
what this buildout was initially created for.
Installation
See docs/INSTALL.rst
Upgrade
See docs/UPGRADE.rst
Advanced Usage
The buildout is split up to make it easy to mix and match the parts you need.
If the links.cfg is used, then a script install-links is created in the
bin directory. That script makes it easy to create symbolic links to all
the binaries and scripts in this buildout. You should set the destination for
those links by creating a local.cfg with the following content and run it
with bin/buildout -c local.cfg after modifying the prefix setting to your
needs:
[buildout] extends = buildout.cfg [install-links] prefix = /path/for/the/links
The buildout is built in a way that you can easily extend it with your own configuration.
Just get a Git clone:
git clone git://github.com/collective/buildout.python.git python
And use a custom buildout.cfg like this:
[buildout]
extends = python/src/base.cfg python/src/python27.cfg
python-buildout-root = ${buildout:directory}/python/src
If you want just one python version but all dependencies, then use something like this:
[buildout]
extends =
src/base.cfg
src/readline.cfg
src/libjpeg.cfg
src/python25.cfg
src/links.cfg
python-buildout-root = ${buildout:directory}/src
parts =
${buildout:base-parts}
${buildout:readline-parts}
${buildout:libjpeg-parts}
${buildout:python25-parts}
${buildout:links-parts}
The python-buildout-root setting is important, otherwise the whole buildout
doesn't work.