[Distutils] Why is zc.buildout picking the wrong platform for binary eggs?

[Jim Fulton]

I plan to add an option to force source or binary eggs to be used.   
Something like:

   egg-type = any|binary|source

where any is the default.  I haven't gotten to this yet. :)

It would probably be nice to specify this at the part level.

Jim

On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:

> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> Hi,
>> As some of you may know, using lxml on OSX is a big pain because of  
>> an incompatible system version of libxml2. The solution is to ship  
>> binary eggs, which we already do for Windows.
>> Now, as a first test, Stefan has uploaded this egg:
>>   lxml-2.2.1-py2.4-macosx-10.5-i386.egg
>> See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.2.1
>> Now, I'm on OSX 10.5, and I've requested this exact version.
>> In a virtualenv, this works. It downloads the given binary egg.
>> In a buildout, it's preferring to download and build the egg  
>> itself, and it calls it lxml-2.2.1-py2.4-macosx-10.3-i386.egg.  
>> That's weird, because this machine has never had OSX 10.3 on it. :(
>> My Python 2.4.6 is installed via darwinports.
>> Now, I can probably work around this, but we're trying to ensure  
>> that people have a sane lxml egg that will install cleanly on a  
>> number of platforms. It's therefore pretty important that the  
>> average user doesn't get this.
>> So, I'd like to try and figure out what's going on. How does  
>> buildout decide which egg to look for? Why is easy_install in a  
>> virtualenv behaving differently to my buildout?
>
> Okay - I just wiped my parts/, bin/ and .installed.cfg and ran  
> bootstrap again. This time, it's building an egg called 10.5, but  
> it's still building its own from the source rather than downloading  
> the binary egg. :(
>
> Martin
>
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