On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Reinout van Rees
Hi,
Buildout and system packages are apparently hard. Buildout 1.5.x tries hard to get it working, but I cannot get it to work (reliably), for instance.
Perhaps the problem is that we're trying too hard. Both buildout 1.5.x and the osc.recipe.sysegg recipe that I'm using on 1.4.x are trying to look up packages and trying to include them in the path.
What you normally want is just to use the system's PIL and mapnik and numpy. All stuff that you really don't want to build from source. So you assume it is installed with a clicky-clicky installer on windows and with apt-get on ubuntu.
There's another thing you might want when using a system Python: to exclude some packages. I suspect that's what makes it hard. -- Benji York