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

[Martin Aspeli]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 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

Yes, that works, but then it doesn't seem to re-check svn for a new 
version each time.

Martin