On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 12:54 PM 2/10/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: ...
(Note: Buildout uses PackageIndex to locate and fetch distributions. It then installs distributions itself. if the distribution is already an egg, then this is straightforward. Otherwise, buildout invokes easy_install to do the installation. It can't get a return value from easy_install, so it uses an Environment to find the egg that easy_install created.)
Note that easy_install can be told to --record what files it installs, so you could build a WorkingSet or Environment from that list.
I looked at that a while back. I don't remember why I didn't take that approach. At this point, I think it would be easier to special-case ==dev. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org