On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote: > IIRC > buildout has its own automatic bootstrapping mechanism so that you > don't have to have buildout or setuptools installed. I think. You are correct. See svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/trunk/bootstrap/bootstrap.py -- Benji York