Buildout

The presenter at PyGTA this month was Robert Jackiewicz who gave an introduction to buildout, a tool for developing and deploying Python applications. Any complex Python application with have many dependencies which many include both Python and non-Python modules. Buildout uses a recipe system to describe which modules are required and how they are to be built. It is like "make" but designed specifically for Python.

I thought of using buildout to replace a program I wrote that creates and deletes project management environments, but buildout lacks an uninstall which would be required for the delete function. Other than that, buildout is a useful tool and I'm sure I will need for it sometime in the future.