Please Add Option To Skip Venv Creation

[muellert]

• Plone CLI version: 2.5
• Python version: 3.11.2
• Operating System: Debian Bookworm amd64

Description

I want to get a Plone6 development environment set up, using my 'plone6' virtualenv which I manage with 'virtualenvwrapper'.

What I Did

(plone6)$ plonecli build

This created a subdirectory 'venv' in the project directory and pulled all sorts of stuff into that, as opposed to just using the already existing and activated virtualenv. I found no way to prevent this from happening. The weirdest thing is, this happened on one machine. On another machine of mine, which runs the same operating system, and where I ran this initially, it did use the virtualenv, but after rsync'ing the resulting project and virtualenv to this machine, it still started with creating that 'venv' directory and put everything that was already present, in there as well. With the scripts being configured in a way that the virtualenv isn't even relocatable, I see no benefit at all, besides not wanting this stuff in my project directory.

Please add a mechanism to use an existing virtualenv and skipping the 'venv' creation step.

[MrTango]

from the readme:

NOTE: When using tools like pyenv or pipenv, you should disable the local virtualenv creation by setting package.venv.disabled = y in your .mrbob config file. You can also use plonecli config to generate the config for you.

does this help you?

[MrTango]

this is a user global setting in your home folder