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

[Jim Fulton]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote:

> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>> Development snapshots of setuptools can be checked out with
>> "setuptools==dev", and that will always download a new version  
>> because the
>> installed version is always a version like 0.6c2dev-r51290 or
>> something.  This doesn't match ==dev, thereby forcing easy_install to
>> download a fresh copy.
>
> Could you explain how the find-link would work with an ==dev version
> specification?
>
> Again, this may be a buildout issue, but I have:
>
>   find-links =
>      ...
>
> http://svn.plone.org/svn/archetypes/archetypes.kss/ 
> trunk#egg=archetypes.kss-0.1dev
>      ...
>
>   eggs =
>      ...
>      archetypes.kss==dev
>      ...
>
> This gives me an error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "./bin/buildout", line 12, in ?
>      zc.buildout.buildout.main()
>    File
> "/private/tmp/tmp29h1vY/zc.buildout-1.0.0b19-py2.4.egg/zc/buildout/ 
> buildout.py",
> line 1056, in main
>    File
> "/private/tmp/tmp29h1vY/zc.buildout-1.0.0b19-py2.4.egg/zc/buildout/ 
> buildout.py",
> line 309, in install
>    File
> "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/ 
> test/bot/eggs/z2c.recipe.zope2instance-0.1dev_r12104-py2.4.egg/z2c/ 
> recipe/zope2instance/__init__.py",
> line 36, in install
>      requirements, ws = self.egg.working_set()
>    File
> "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/ 
> test/bot/eggs/zc.recipe.egg-1.0.0b4-py2.4.egg/zc/recipe/egg/egg.py",
> line 79, in working_set
>      path=[options['develop-eggs-directory']]
>    File
> "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/ 
> test/bot/eggs/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg/easy_install.py",
> line 355, in install
>
>    File
> "/Users/optilude/Development/Plone/Code/Products/ZopeSkel/trunk/ 
> test/bot/eggs/setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg/easy_install.py",
> line 294, in _get_dist
>
> ValueError: ("Couldn't find", Requirement.parse 
> ('archetypes.kss==dev'))
>
> I have a feeling this means my find-link is wrong, but I couldn't  
> find a
> permutation that works...

I think you don't need/want the the ==dev in the requirement.
That is:

eggs = archetypes.kss

Jim

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