[Distutils] bootstrap.py doesn't work offline?

[Tarek Ziade]

We have a special bootstrap.py here that will look for setuptools and other
on eggs/  in the buildout
or copy them from the system, so it works offline as well in case teh web is
unreachable.

Since bootstrap is also used to create directories inside the buildout or
simply, to link your buildout to another
interpreter, we wanted it to work with or without an internet connection.
(because you might want to run it again when you deploy
a source buildout at your customer in an existing python environment)

It is really simple to change.

2008/11/20 Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:43:26PM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
> > Is it just me or does buildout's bootstrap.py not work offline, even if
> > the latest versions of buildout and setuptools are available in
> > buildout:egg-directory?
>
> That's right.  bootstrap.py is essentially
>
>   exec urllib.urlopen('http://someplace/somescript').read(<http://someplace/somescript%27%29.read%28>
> ).
>
> I was scared too when I first saw it.
>
> But you don't need bootstrap.py if you already have buildout installed.
>
> Marius Gedminas
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