[Distutils] [zc.buildout] versions section (doesn't - does - erm? appear to work..)

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> (apologies for half sent mail, emacs save file and thunderbird send  
> message have the same key mapping :-S)
>
> Okay, so I had a simple buildout config as follows:
>
> [buildout]
> parts = eggs
> versions = versions
>
> [versions]
> setuptools-version = == 0.6c8
> zc.buildout-version = == 1.0.6

This isn't correct syntax.  It should be just:


setuptools-version = 0.6c8
zc.buildout-version = 1.0.6



>
>
> [eggs]
> recipe = zc.recipe.egg
> eggs = BeautifulSoup == 3.0.7a
> interpreter = py
> extra-paths = .
>
> Now, from what Jim's said, it would seem like the versions section  
> would be a good thing to use, so I tried changing the above recipe to:
>
> [buildout]
> parts = eggs
> versions = versions
>
> [versions]
> setuptools = 2
> zc.buildout = 2
> BeautifulSoup = 4

These are non-existent versions.

> [eggs]
> recipe = zc.recipe.egg
> eggs = BeautifulSoup
> interpreter = py
> extra-paths = .
>
> Now, I could have sworn this ran without barfing on the  
> (deliberately) non-existent versions. However, paranoidly re- 
> checking before (*cough*) I sent the mail, it seems to work now.

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

> Are there any situations where this would fail?


Your buildout should fail as long as you have invalid versions for  
projects used in the buildout.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation