[Distutils] Which buildout to use?

[Attila Oláh]

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 13:45, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, we use zc.buildout-1.5.2 with a project that runs Pyramid on
Google's App Engine. I run the development environment in Gentoo, and
I have net-zope/zope-interface installed in
/usr/lib64/python?.?/site-packages/zope/interface. When I run buildout
with a system Python that's ABI is supported by the zope-inteface
ebuild, it will use the one from the system site-packages. IOW,
worksforme.

Have you tried the allowed-eggs-from-site-packages [1] option?

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/1.5.2#working-with-a-system-python

Attila