[Distutils] buildout directory computation change

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:28 AM, whit morriss wrote:

> it looks like something changes in how some vars (ie buildout:egg- 
> directory) gets computed between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0
>
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/whit/dev/geo/ 
> alm3//Users/whit/dev/geo/alm3/develop-eggs'
>
> is the resulting error for:
>
> eggs-directory = ${buildout:directory}/develop-eggs
>
> instead of:
>
> '/Users/whit/dev/geo/alm3/develop-eggs'
>
> (which I believe works until at least 1.0.2)
>
> buildout seems to implicitly assume I want buildout:directory  
> appended. is this a feature, bug, or something I can turn off?


The way buildout normalizes buildout paths did change in 1.1.0.  I  
haven't seen this error and can't see, in the code, while this error  
would occur.

Can you provide a buildout I can use to reproduce this problem?

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation