# HG changeset patch
# User Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
# Date 1274481646 25200
# Node ID a9110cc98d94a743625862192c1d0e0d44bf9654
# Parent  71576cdc28ab8e9be80baf14878ba6cd0aaaaa2c
adding notes on a venvit idea

diff -r 71576cdc28ab -r a9110cc98d94 python/venvit.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/python/venvit.py	Fri May 21 15:40:46 2010 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+venvit.py -- the equivalent of ez_setup.py for virtualenv, but less intrusive;
+It wants a one-step installation to install python into a new virtualenv.
+venvit is meant to be used via e.g. curl, although you can download it as well:
+
+ curl http://example.com/path/to/venvit.py | python - <package>
+
+If <package> is a package name, it tries to install it from the cheeseshop.
+
+If it is a svn/hg/git/tgz/etc URL, it should download and install the software
+in source.
+
+Only useful output -- like the scripts installed -- should be output to the
+user.
+
+Ideally, packages could have a venvit__init__.py (or a better name) that
+will be executed after installation (or a venvit.txt which would just be output
+to console, maybe falling back to the README
+"""