Tutorial Installation

1. Make a virtualenv, source the environment, and install BFG with ZODB:

   $ path-to-your-python/bin/virtualenv --no-site-packages t3
   New python executable in t3/bin/python2.5
   Also creating executable in t3/bin/python
   Installing setuptools............done.
   bash-3.2$ cd t3
   bash-3.2$ source bin/activate
   

2. Install lxml using a private copy of libxml2/libxslt:

   (t3)bash-3.2$ STATIC_DEPS=true easy_install lxml
   

3. Install BFG:

   (t3)bash-3.2$ easy_install -i http://dist.repoze.org/lemonade/dev/simple repoze.bfg
   

4. Use paster to make a new BFG-ZODB project:

   (t3)bash-3.2$ paster create -t bfg_zodb t3
   (t3)bash-3.2$ cd t3
   (t3)bash-3.2$ python setup.py develop
   

5. Add a couple more dependencies:

   (t3)bash-3.2$ easy_install FormEncode
   (t3)bash-3.2$ easy_install nose
   (t3)bash-3.2$ easy_install -i http://dist.repoze.org/lemonade/dev/simple repoze.folder