On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Yves Moisan wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new at buildout and I was wondering if it was possible to emulate a system command like "python setup.py install" in buildout. Use Case :
[buildout] parts = MapFishTrunk
[MapFishTrunk] recipe = infrae.subversion urls = http://www.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/trunk/MapFish MapFish interpreter = Scripts\python
There is a setup.py file a couple of levels down the directory that I would like to execute to build the eggs (and dependencies) and to store the resulting eggs in a location accessible to Scripts\python (which was generated using virtualenv). I can run Scripts/python setup.py install but I wonder if that can be done within buildout.
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do. Buildout is capable of building develop eggs from source directories. I don't think you can build regular eggs from source directories. You also want to run the setup with certain distributions in the path. There isn't support for doing that presently, although folks would find it useful. It would be possible to write a recipe that did both of these things. You would then define a part for the egg you wanted to install, where that part would use the recipe. You'd want to list that part before other parts that need that egg. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation