[kobold at debian.org: The future of Zope{2, 3} and Plone in Debian and Ubuntu]

[Brian Sutherland]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:48:41PM -0400, Erik Rose wrote:
> Buildout is really a development tool and not universally lauded as a  
> deployment solution (though it's ubiquitous right now simply because  
> it's the only thing that works). It suffers many reliability issues in  
> both its design and its execution that make it unsuitable for our  
> production environments

There's also the option of converting a built buildout into a package
for deployment on production environments. I don't use it myself, but
some do use zc.sourcerelease for this:

    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.sourcerelease/

Personally, I prefer to manage Debian repositories and mirror them into
PYPI style indexes of eggs (or a set of buildout versions). Development
buildouts then use the PYPI index:

   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/van.reposync 

-- 
Brian Sutherland