On Feb 10, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 02:20 PM 2/10/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
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. :)
Ah, but setuptools has a ==dev06, and I think other people have used other tags to denote various SVN branches. The name used to denote the version is incidental, IOW, so that way lies N special cases, all different. :)
I really don't understand this feature. So far I have had to resort to experimentation to get a loose grip on it. I think this needs to be much better documented (or dropped). Unfortunately, I think you are the only one who can document it because I think that you are the only one who truly understands it. 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