Warning
This project has been deprecated in favor of the amazing pip project. For more info about using pip to deploy Django and Python projects, see Project Bootstrapping - Django Best Practices.
easy_install Fabric virtualenv
Create a folder that will serve as the home for your project source code and virtual environment. Drop fabfile.py and fabreqs.py into the directory and run:
fab bootstrap
This will create two new folders in the directory src, containing all the downloaded source code, and ve, which is a virtualenv that can be activated with source ve/bin/activate.
fabreqs.py is a simple Python file that should contain all the dependencies for your project. requirements is a list of Python dictionaries defining the external dependencies. Valid keys are:
name: Used for naming the source folder (required)dist: Distribution method for the package, valid options arebzr,git,hg,pypi,svn,wget(required)package: The Python package assumed to be inside the source folder. If not provided, the use of distutils (python setup.py install) is assumed (optional)url: URL to source (optional)rev: Revision to download. If not defined, the most recent available version will be used. (optional)branch: Branch to use, git and hg only. (optional)