[Distutils] Buildout using Distribute 0.6

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> I've been working on a branch of zc.buildout that uses distribute instead of
>> setuptools:
>>
>> http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/branches/use_distribute/

Okay, I now have all but a couple of tests passing on this branch, with 
all the changes from the trunk merged in as of a few hours ago...

The test failures are a bit weird though:

File "...src/zc/buildout/bootstrap.txt", line 23, in bootstrap.txt
Failed example:
     print 'X'; print system(
         zc.buildout.easy_install._safe_arg(sys.executable)+' '+
         'bootstrap.py'); print 'X' # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
...
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "bootstrap.py", line 87, in <module>
         ws.require('zc.buildout' + VERSION)
       File ".../distribute-0.6-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 621, 
in require
       File ".../distribute-0.6-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 519, 
in resolve
     pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: setuptools
     <BLANKLINE>

I can't find where setuptools is being required, any ideas?

The other one seems to be a difference in how buildout signatures are 
generated:

File "zc.buildout_co/zc.recipe.egg_/src/zc/recipe/egg/api.txt", line 97, 
in api.txt
Failed example:
     cat(sample_buildout, '.installed.cfg')
Expected:
...
     __buildout_signature__ = sample-6aWMvV2EJ9Ijq+bR8ugArQ==
             zc.recipe.egg-cAsnudgkduAa/Fd+WJIM6Q==
             distribute-0.6-py2.4.egg
             zc.buildout-+rYeCcmFuD1K/aB77XTj5A==
...
Got:
...
     __buildout_signature__ = sample-lpbdfaUB6wBah/5eldWn2w== 
zc.recipe.egg-EkSb+I3tVPPzlm3QwumIDA== distribute-0.6-py2.6.egg 
zc.buildout-mUvpjgUjaaBCXzejndcJIA==
...

Again, I'm open to suggestions as to why distribute appears to cause the 
line endings to vanish in __buildout_signature__?

I'm also curious: do these signatures change with each new version of 
rc.recipe.egg and distribute get released?

cheers,

Chris

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