Phillip J. Eby wrote:
Development snapshots of setuptools can be checked out with "setuptools==dev", and that will always download a new version because the installed version is always a version like 0.6c2dev-r51290 or something. This doesn't match ==dev, thereby forcing easy_install to download a fresh copy.
Could you explain how the find-link would work with an ==dev version specification? Again, this may be a buildout issue, but I have: find-links = ... http://svn.plone.org/svn/archetypes/archetypes.kss/trunk#egg=archetypes.kss-... ... eggs = ... archetypes.kss==dev ... This gives me an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./bin/buildout", line 12, in ? zc.buildout.buildout.main() File "/private/tmp/tmp29h1vY/zc.buildout-1.0.0b19-py2.4.egg/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line 1056, in main File "/private/tmp/tmp29h1vY/zc.buildout-1.0.0b19-py2.4.egg/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line 309, in install File "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/test/bot/eggs/z2c.recipe.zope2instance-0.1dev_r12104-py2.4.egg/z2c/recipe/zope2instance/__init__.py", line 36, in install requirements, ws = self.egg.working_set() File "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/test/bot/eggs/zc.recipe.egg-1.0.0b4-py2.4.egg/zc/recipe/egg/egg.py", line 79, in working_set path=[options['develop-eggs-directory']] File "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/test/bot/eggs/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg/easy_install.py", line 355, in install File "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/test/bot/eggs/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg/easy_install.py", line 294, in _get_dist ValueError: ("Couldn't find", Requirement.parse('archetypes.kss==dev')) I have a feeling this means my find-link is wrong, but I couldn't find a permutation that works... Martin