[Community] Shapely on Windows from virtualenv

[Eric Lemoine]

Hello

I need to have Shapely available from a virtualenv. Given that the
Windows installer of Shapely (Shapely-1.0.11.win32.exe) won't see the
virtualenv I thought about installing Shapely in the global
site-packages (C:\Python25) and creating it the virtualenv without the
--no-site-packages option so that eggs installed in the global
site-packages are available in the virtualenv. But this doesn't work
with Shapely - when doing "import shapefile.geometry" an exception
occurs because geos.dll cannot be found. If I create a DLLs folder
under my virtualenv and copy geos.dll in that folder then it works,
but this obviously a pain.

Does someone have an idea on how to improve the situation here?

Thanks,

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Eric