[Distutils] Which buildout to use?

[Reinout van Rees]

Hi,

There's buildout 1.4.4, 1.5.2 and an alpha of 2.0.

The 2.0 seems to aim at python 3 and is, according to the docs, in a 
very early alpha stage, so I'll leave that one out.

What I'm using now is 1.4.4 with the special bootstrap.py that ensures 
it picks 1.4.4 instead of a newer one. The reason: it works with 
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/osc.recipe.sysegg which finds system wide 
python packages (numpy and other stuff better installed through the OS).

I tried 1.5.x half a year ago, but it didn't find numpy&friends on 
ubuntu even though 1.5 is supposed to allow just that. I tried it this 
morning on OSX with 1.5.2 but still no luck. It doesn't want to find the 
OS-level packages.

But... sticking to ye olde 1.4.4 seems wrong to me. So I phoned my 
brother Maurits (hi!) who is working with plone: plone is a heavy 
buildout user, so what's the status there? He said plone is basically 
also still on 1.4.4!


a) I feel a bit better sticking to 1.4.4, knowing that plone also does it.

b) Is anyone actually using 1.5.2 with system packages? And by that I 
mean that you have a dependency on something like numpy and buildout 
actually finds that package locally and won't try and grab it off pypi?

Am I doing something wrong? I dare say I've got an above average 
experience with buidout and I just can't get this to work.



Reinout


p.s.: Here's my buildout config. Am I doing something completely wrong?

   [buildout]
   parts = scripts
   include-site-packages = true
   allowed-eggs-from-site-packages =
       numpy

   [scripts]
   recipe = zc.recipe.egg
   eggs =
       numpy


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