<html><head></head><body style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Jul 4, 2011 13:30 "Laurence Rowe" <a href="mailto:l@lrowe.co.uk"><l@lrowe.co.uk></a> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>I suggest using <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.recipe.zope2instance">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.recipe.zope2instance</a><br>(it is not Plone specific) and referring to the Plone documentation<br>for installing add-ons:<br><a href="http://plone.org/documentation/kb/add-ons/installing">http://plone.org/documentation/kb/add-ons/installing</a><br></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br>Thanks Lawrence,<br><br>I have already a zope 2.13.7 installation following the instructions and using virtualenv. This seems to be an alternative to the buildout system explained in those links.<br><br>There are several options in the add-ons page and I don't feel confident it really applies to my case:<br><br>1) what is the ZSQLMethods package in pypi? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.ZSQLMethods/2.13.4. It's a zip with some "egg-info" stuff in there but it is not clear that it really is an egg (no .egg extension)<br><br>2) is Buildout compatible with virtualenv? The option to install an Egg without Buildout is not recommended over there.<br><br>Fernando<br></div></body></html>