Jim Fulton wrote:

On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

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Reading:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/1.0.6#work-on-a-package

...again.

Can someone walk me through like the idiot I feel right now why having "develop = ." results in src/zc/ngi/ ending up on the python path?

It doesn't. It results, in the case of zc.ngi, in src being on the Python path.

Okay, but how? I don't see any mention of 'src' in any of the config...

The develop option takes one or more paths, separated by spaces. :)

Each path should point to a setup script or to a directory containing one. Each setup script is run in "develop" mode

What does this mean?

creating a "develop" egg which is just a file containing the path to a project's sourc directory. This directory is added to the path. Note that the project's source directory is controlled by the setup script. It need not be a src subdirectory of a project.

Ah, okay, hmmm, to be honest using an example that's not in the docs makes this less clear than it should be. It's only now that I read http://svn.zope.org/zc.ngi/trunk/setup.py?rev=76019&view=auto that I see the 'src'... Thanks for replying though, I feel like the fog is giving a good 3 feet of visibility now ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk