Simon Willison’s Weblog

Installing Django, Solr, Varnish and Supervisord with Buildout. Useful, detailed instructions... but I still think this stuff is Way Too Difficult at the moment. I’m a big fan of the idea of sites that are assembled from multiple smaller web services talking HTTP to each other, but ensuring all the moving parts stay running is massively more painful than just running Apache and MySQL.

# 7th June 2009, 1:54 pm / apache, mysql, sysadmin, operations, rest, django, solr, varnish, supervisord, buildout, python, bertrandmathieu

Kevin Teague explains the Python packaging ecosystem. The distinction between setuptools, PyPI, distutils, eggs, easy_install, pkg_resources and zc.buildout used to make my head spin. Kevin Teague’s outstanding explanation made it all make sense.

# 15th September 2008, 2:06 pm / pypi, python, distutils, eggs, setuptools, easyinstall, buildout, kevinteague, django