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

[Phillip J. Eby]

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.  :)