[Distutils] [buildout] branches languishing? (site-packages and distutils scripts)

[Gary Poster]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Yonsy Solis wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:29 -0500, Gary Poster wrote:
> 
>> The new branch does not try for that.  It simply builds dependency sets ignoring the Python's site.py (so, ignoring site-packages).  If desired, you can have scripts import site.py *after* the buildout eggs have been set up (so if your buildout did not require PIL, but your system's Python had it, your code could use the system's version if you were willing to open yourself up to that potential fragility), but that's the only integration.
>> 
>> If it is really desired, I could look at porting the work later from the previous branch (after the basic work on the new approach lands).  I am currently of the opinion that it is too tricky for too rare of a win (and I don't need it right now ;-) ).
> 
> Gary, exist any way that this feature to exclude the site-packages can
> be coded like an buildout extension ?

Not that I see, no.  It needs changes that are at the heart of the buildout code, AFAIK.

Gary