[Distutils] environment variables in buildout config files?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:02:24PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> I just converted Mailman 3 to use zc.buildout.  Thanks to Gary Poster
>> for providing some good examples and the impetus for my force  
>> vacation
>> hacking. :)
>>
>> I especially like being able to specify defaults in my ~/.buildout/
>> default.cfg file.  One thing that bugs me though is that I can't use
>> environment variables like $HOME there.
>
> Seconded: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/190260

Thanks.  I've just added a comment on that bug, and have subscribed to  
it.

>> This is a minor pain because
>> I can't share my .buildout directory between Linux and OS X machines
>> (say, via version control).  It appears as though I have to be
>> explicit in the path, with /Users/barry on OS X and /home/barry on
>> Linux.
>>
>> Similarly, in my buildout.cfg file, if I include a develop field
>> pointing to some source directories (other than .), I can't use  
>> $HOME/
>> projects/foo/bar here.
>>
>> Any thoughts on supporting environment variables in .cfg files?  Or  
>> do
>> they work and I'm just experiencing operator error? ;)
>
> AFAIK, no.
>
>> I'm also wondering, does it make sense to put develop-eggs and parts
>> in say ~/.buildout?
>
> No, since those are specific to a particular project and shouldn't be
> shared.

Ok.

> (Actually, I don't understand what 'develop-eggs' is for, other than
> that removing it tends to fix weird problems after switching from a
> develop-egg to a normal egg.)
>
>> I kind of dislike having artifacts like these
>> live in my version controlled source directory (well, there's bin  
>> too,
>> but I can kind of live with that).  What's the best way of doing  
>> that?
>
> echo 'bin parts develop-eggs' > .csvignore
> svn propedit svn:ignore .
> bzr ignore bin parts develop-eggs
> or the equivalent for the VCS of your choice.

Actually, it's not so much 'bzr stat' that I care about since that's  
easily ignored.  It's 'ls' that I care about since that's tougher to  
ignore.  I guess I could use dot-prefixes. ;)

Thanks
Barry


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