[Distutils] [buildout] selectively excluding site-packages

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Mon Mar 22 10:21:12 CET 2010


Gary Poster wrote:
>> Are these any docs on the new features on that branch? If so, where should I look?
> 
> The user-visible part of the changes is in the z3c.recipe.scripts recipe contained within the zc.buildout checkout, like zc.recipe.egg.

Sorry, you lost me there... I thought z3c.recipe.scripts was another 
package entirely. Have you merged it into zc.buildout? If so, why?

> Note that mixing a system python's site-packages and buildout eggs will, in my guess, always be less stable

Hmm, I guess you just need to make sure that the buildout manages the 
system packages too... There must be a recipe which drive aptitude 
around somewhere?

Chris

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