[Distutils] [buildout] zc.buildout.testing.install(_develop) and test setup slowness

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone explain how or why zc.buildout.testing.install and
> zc.buildout.testing.install_develop don't install the dependencies of the
> package you specify?

It wasn't needed at the time.


> I'm writing a recipe that requires the Zope2 package to be present, and it
> has rather a lot of dependent packages. The pattern with buildout recipe
> tests seems to be to manually install the package under test with
> zc.buildout.testing.install_develop and then each required package with
> zc.buildout.testing.install.
>
> For Zope2, this doesn't scale so well ;-)

Maybe the recipe shouldn't require all of Zope 2. That seems like a rather
heavy dependency for a recipe.

Jim

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Jim Fulton