Tipfy is very dependent on python eggs to
start a development environment. This is good if you want to rely on stable packages
available from Pypi, but if you want to
work with packages or version packages not found on Pypi you have to copy
the source code to your tipfy project manually and dealing with changes become
painful.

But Tipfy's build process is made by Buildout. Buildout is very flexible and allow us to create our own configuration to meet our needs.

Tipy Project is a buildout configuration to help start a new tipfy app with
code collaboration in mind. To accomplish this all the apps that powers tipfy
can be installed from their source repositories, allowing to choice the exact
version of pieces. Also, any change on repositories can be pushed to owner of
source repo making collaboration easy.

Another benefit of using Tipfy Project's approach is your application code living outside of framework stuff, thanks to git, mercurial or subversion.

Take a look at README.txt to learn how to start a new Tipfy project