[Distutils] Building an egg from Subversion using zc.buildout

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:26 PM 2/9/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
> > ValueError: ("Couldn't find", Requirement.parse
> > ('archetypes.kss==dev'))
>
>I finally found some time to look into this.
>
>Buildout uses setuptools APIs.  It uses a PackageIndex to download
>the distribution and this actually works.  It then uses an
>environment best_match method to get a distribution object and
>best_match returns None.  If I remove the ==dev from the requirement,
>then best_match is able to find the distribution. This happens
>because apparently no distributions match a requirement for the "dev"
>version.  Should I view this as a bug in setuptools?

The normal usage is "==dev,>=realver" where 'realver' is the real version 
you want.


>  Or does buildout
>need to special case the version "dev"?

I don't think so.