[Distutils] [buildout] selectively excluding site-packages

[Gary Poster]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Gary Poster wrote:
>> If you are a newbie, I strongly suggest sticking with the released versions.  What I have done has zero guarantee of Jim merging it.
> 
> If he doesn't, how about a fork? ;-)

Rather not.

>> Moreover, the instructions on how a newbie can use this stuff from source are not worth my time or yours, IMO.
> 
> I'm not so sure, can't see what should prevent a new user trying all of this...

They would need to make eggs or sdists and put them in a download-cache, for instance.  If you'd like to volunteer the support, go for it. :-)

> 
>> On the other hand, if you are asking how you *would* use a system Python if my branches were merged, you would use the new version of zc.buildout, and use z3c.recipe.scripts where you normally would have used zc.recipe.egg,
> 
> Why is z3c.recipe.scripts required?

Backwards compatibility.  It has the new behavior.  zc.recipe.eggs has the old behavior.

Gary