The minitage buildout recipes¶
You must look on : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/minitage.recipe to enjoy playing with a minitage environment, those recipes fit well inside a minitage.
Dependency project¶
Purpose¶
How to package a system dependency which is not python related software (not installed with distutils or setuptools) in minitage. The minitage category is “dependencies”.
Layout¶
You must install into minitage/dependencies/dependencyName/parts/part
Sample Layout¶
You can use this sample throught paster:
easy_install minitage.paste
paster create -t minitage.dependency dependencyName
Python based projet¶
Purpose¶
Packaging python things, distutils or setuptools. The minitage category is “eggs”.
Distutils¶
Layout¶
For each python version supported, we will install a site-package-PYTHONVER in the parts buildout directory.
The minitage.recipe:du recipe¶
This recipe can install packages based on distutils that dont support yet setuptools. In this case, the goal is to install in a prefix the python module to make it come later in the python patn.
You can create a project based on this recipe with:
easy_install minitage.paste
paster create -t minitage.distutils myproject
Python eggs¶
Layout¶
The resulted eggs will be put in the egg cache of the buildout section, those projects live in the eggs/ directory
The minitage.recipe:egg recipe¶
This recipe can install packages based on setuptools.
You can either install from an url or an egg name.
You can install multiple eggs at a time.
You can create a project based on this recipe with:
easy_install minitage.paste
paster create -t minitage.egg myproject