A simple Python deployment problem - a whole world of pain

Question

We have several Python 2.6 applications running on Linux. Some of them are Pylons web applications, others are simply long-running processes that we run from the command lin

Answer 1

Another vote for fabric (haven't tried Buildout yet). We've been using it successfully for a couple of months now.

If you're having trouble with fabric, another option is Capistrano. Works great (even for non-rails apps). Only stopped using it because it feels weird to use Ruby to deploy Python apps ;)