[Distutils] new zc.buildout and virtualenv no longer friends?

[Gary Poster]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Chris McDonough wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 08:57 +0200, Rok Garbas wrote:
>> i ment on bootstrap ..
>> 
>> python bootstrap.py -v1.4.3
> 
> Thanks Rok.  With that hint, I was able to work around it in a
> virtualenv by:
> 
> - Using the bootstrap.py from the 1.4.3 tag
> (<http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/tags/1.4.3/bootstrap/bootstrap.py?rev=106409&view=markup>)
> 
> - Adding the [versions] stanza that pins zc.buildout 1.4.3 and
> zc.recipe.egg 1.2.2 to my buildout.cfg ala:
> 
>  versions = versions
>  [versions]
>  zc.buildout = 1.4.3
>  zc.recipe.egg = 1.2.2
> 
> - Running the above bootstrap.py with the virtualenv python and the
> -v1.4.3 argument.
> 
>  bin/python bootstrap.py -v1.4.3
> 
> - Run bin/buildout
> 
> That produces a working environment.

Thanks for the clear instructions for the work-around, Chris and Rok.

While one of the goals of the new buildout is to make virtualenv unnecessary with it if desired, I think it is a priority that virtualenv and zc.buildout continue to be able to work together.  I'll investigate this report today.

Gary