[Distutils] buildout directory computation change

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Mon Jul 28 20:32:02 CEST 2008


On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:

>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:14 PM, kiorky wrote:
>
>> Jim Fulton a écrit :
>>> 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
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>> I saw this problem which broke minitage too a week ago.
>>
>> Jim, you can see all the buildouts in there : http://trac.minitage.org/trac/browser 
>>  	
>> like:http://trac.minitage.org/trac/browser/minitage/buildouts/dependencies/bzip2-1.0.4/buildout.cfg 
>> .
>>
>> They will all fail with zc.buildout >= 1.1
>
>
> Not for me. :)  I've tried on both Ubuntu and Mac OS X.


But I've been able to create another buildout that seems to exhibit  
the same symptom.

Jim

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