This doc is copied from http://github.com/jbalogh/zamboni-lib#readme

This is the collection of FlightDeck's pure-python dependencies.

From your FlightDeck root, do this:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/zalun/FlightDeck-lib.git vendor

Sit back and relax while all that downloads, then proceed on your merry way.

To keep it up to date:

pushd vendor && git pull && git submodule update --init && popd

How FlightDeck-lib was made

pip install -I --install-option="--home=`pwd`/vendor" --src='vendor/src' -r requirements/development.txt

# this step wasn't done (yet?)
# ..delete some junk from vendor/lib/python...

# Create the .pth file so Python can find our src libs.
find src -type d -depth 1 >> flightdeck.pth

# Add all the submodules.
for f in src/*; do
    pushd $f >/dev/null && REPO=$(git config remote.origin.url) && popd > /dev/null && git submodule add $REPO $f
done
git add .

Using your own vendor lib

We add these lines to our manage.py file, since it's the entrypoint to everything we do in FlightDeck Adjust as you see fit.

import site
site.addsitedir('vendor')
site.addsitedir('vendor/lib/python')

addsitedir adds that directory to the Python path and looks for other .pth files in that dir. We use a .pth in vendor to load our src/ packages, and pip may have added other .pth files in vendor/lib/python.