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The concept of "deployment"

After installing Askbot with (1) pip, (2) easy_install, or (3) untarring and running setup.py, you're supposed to run startforum (which resides in the same bin directory where the python executable is).

startforum is called a deployment script.

  1. What exactly does it do?
  2. Why is it needed? Why can't we just unzip Askbot in a directory and run it?