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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:37 PM 1/29/2007 +0000, 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?

#egg=archetypes.kss-dev

That is, use 'dev' as the version in the link.  The combination of an ==dev 
version specification and a #egg=projectname-dev tag means that the code 
will be downloaded and rebuilt *every* time, however.