On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 03:09 PM 8/19/2008 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

So, setuptools should use a random, unique, temporary name in this function imho
to make buildout happy with any kind of dev package.

Um, no. easy_install does *each* download to a unique temporary directory. If buildout is doing something else, it's buildout that's broken.

Oups right, I thought easy_install worked with the same temp folder in the same run but it is zc.buildout,

I just found the place where it is not behaving correctly, it does a

>>> index.download('http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/#egg=setuptools-dev', FOLDER)

where FOLDER may have a "setuptools" directory already

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Jim do you still dislike the idea of making zc.buildout compatible with packages downloaded with egg fragments ?

Because even if no one uses such urls in the find-links option, it will be forced if you try to use "setuptools==dev" in the buildout,
which would be simpler that to use a 'develop' option in that case.

I think the solution is to check for this in Installer._fetch(self, dist, tmp, download_cache) in zc.buildout/easy_install.py
and do a special treatement when such urls are provided.

Tarek

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