On Mar 1, 2013 5:54 AM, "Reinout van Rees" <reinout@vanrees.org> wrote:

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On 28-02-13 20:31, Ben Acland wrote:

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tl;dr: how to handle build time dependencies between python modules using buildout, without looking stupid or including .tar.gz files in my repo.

numpy and scipy are a hell to install.

Would there be something we could do to help these important projects be easier to install?

I had a thought last night, after digging through zc.buildout for a while. In buildout's easy_install.py's _call_easy_install, around line 299 in v2.0.1, you call distribute's easy_install using this: exit_code = subprocess.call( list(args), env=dict(os.environ, PYTHONPATH=path)) I *think* it would work to pass in a list of other egg-producing parts, then look for those eggs at this point and add them to the path. Alternatively, a list of paths would get the job done, but you'd have to lock down the egg version before hard coding the path. Ben