[Distutils] zc.buildout, recipe downloading dev eggs

[Justin Ryan]

On closer inspection, the zc.recipe.egg documentation doesn't make any
mention of this feature, though I think it's a great idea and hats off
to the author if it was originally intended to work that way but
doesn't, or maybe broke at some point because a contributor didn't
understand the feature.

If there's some work to be done, I'm happy to help.

I really want this style of buildout usage to be possible.

Let's work together!  Our Foundation's goals line up with Zope extremeley well!

:)

Peace,

J

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Justin Ryan <justizin at vongogo.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
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>>> No.  buildout doesn't care when develop eggs are created. If you use the buildout develop option to create develop eggs, then they are created early.  If you use the zc.recipe.egg:develop recipe, or some other recipe that creates develop eggs, then you can create them later.
>>
>> Ah, fantastic, I came to an understanding of this last week or so, but some example usage I found led me to believe it wouldn't work.
>>
>> Perfect!  Thanks.
>>
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> OK, I gave this a shot in a simple case, a buildout you can find here:
>
>  http://dev.vongogo.net/bzr/repos/buildouts/getpaid.buildout/
>
> The develop option in getpaid.cfg seems to be ignored entirely, I
> don't see any messages like "We have a develop egg", and it fails to
> find a distribution for yoma.batching, which is in the develop list,
> though it finds others which are available in PyPI.
>
> If I'm working on another false assumption, or parsed something from
> you or the documentation wrong, please correct.  I just want to be
> able to deploy in this style. :)
>
> Best,
>
> J
>
> --
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>



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