On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Jim Fulton
You have to rely on the recipe documentation. Recipes should provide documentation that describes how they're used, including what their options are. Many recipes make this available as part of their PYPI pages (For example, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.deployment). Buildout doesn't provide an API for a recipe to register or declare the options it provides. Perhaps it should.
We did work on that in a sprint with Godefroid, to be able to display recipe options doc from the command line at the Snow sprint. But I can't see the branch anymore.. Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/