[Distutils] [buildout] selectively excluding site-packages

[Chris Withers]

Gary Poster wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I guess this is mainly aimed at Jim and Gary...
>>
>> How's the work to allow control over which packages come from site-packages and whether or not site-packages is considered by default?
> 
> Jim asked if I tested all branches with all pertinent Python versions.  After almost two weeks, I replied "no."  Only the branches that I considered deploying internally were tested in that way.  I haven't heard if Jim wants me to make all branches pass that way, but I offered.

Ah, I thought you'd rolled all the branches up into one uber-branch?

> From my perspective, sure.  Use the most recent branch and report problems.  I'm sure there will be some.  I need to make bootstrap more defensive, for instance.  Maybe I'll have time for that today.
> 
> bzr branch is lp:~gary/zc.buildout/python-support-8-support-subprocess and svn is http://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/branches/gary-8/ .

Okay, I'll see what I can do...

Are these any docs on the new features on that branch? If so, where 
should I look?

Chris

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