Hi all, I am happy to announce BPT 0.4a http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bpt
This release is particularly interesting for python users, since it includes a modified version of PIP that installs the packages inside the box. So, at least for python packages, installation (including dependency resolution) is fully automated. Version 0.4 =========== - Included a forked version of `PIP <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip>`_ 0.3.1 that installs packages in the current box. Installing python packages is now as easy as ``easy_install`` - Implemented the ``autoremove`` command that removes all the disabled packages (unless they match given patterns) - Written some new documentation, added a TODO list What is BPT =========== BPT is a Python library (``bpt``) and a command line application (``box``) to create and manage isolated enviroments, or *boxes*. - Boxes are *relocatable*, which means that they can be moved to a different directory or even distributed to other machines (provided that the architecture is compatible). - Packages inside the box can be easily disabled, enabled and removed, so that different versions of the same software can be installed simultaneously, allowing to switch between them. - Boxes can be *nested*, in the sense that it is possible to activate a box environment while inside another box environment, so that all the packages installed in both boxes are available, and so on. BPT is similar in some ways to `virtualenv <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv>`_, but it is not restricted to Python packages, allowing to install virtually any Unix software. It also takes some ideas from `jhbuild <http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild>`_, but without the dependency resolution and automatic downloading machinery, and the ``bpt-rules`` format is inspired by `Gentoo <http://www.gentoo.org/>`_'s ebuilds. A fork of PIP_ is included to make installation of python packages easier, and as an example of use of the BPT API. Enjoy, Giuseppe Ottaviano _______________________________________________ Python mailing list Python@lists.python.it http://lists.python.it/mailman/listinfo/python
