Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 12:21 PM 11/19/2006 -0500, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
I'm using zc.buildout for deploying a handful of applications, and one of our dependencies doesn't have eggs or "correctly" formatted pages (that would allow easy_install to track down the repository for direct building from source). Does zc.buildout provide any way to build an egg from a Subversion URL? Something with similar behavior to: easy_install -m -d ./eggs http://path/to/svn/repos
I'm happy to write a recipe if necessary, just thought I'd make sure someone else hadn't already scratched this itch.
If it's a dependency declared in your setup.py, you can do something like this:
dependency_links=['http://path/to/svn/repos#egg=Foo-dev'], install_requires=['Foo>=1.2,==dev'],
in your setup() call, to depend on version 1.2 or greater of Foo; the ==dev and the #egg=Foo-dev will allow it to be found via SVN.
See also these two manual sections that document the use of ==dev and #egg=:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#managing-continuous-relea...
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#making-your-package-avail...
I found myself searching for this very thing, and couldn't find a way to do it with zc.buildout. Listing an svn URL in the 'eggs' section gave a syntax error (with or without the #egg=Foo-dev bit). Listing the svn URL in 'find-links' didn't work either. I'm not sure I understand zc.recipe.egg and setuptools well enough to be able to guess what may be wrong. Since zc.buildout uses setuptools though, if there is a standard setuptools way of doing this, I'd hope it should be possible to do it in zc.buildout? Martin