[Distutils] make-like develop

[Jorge Vargas]

Hi,

What you are describing seems a lot like the task/way of operation of
Buildout. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout Perhaps you should
take a look at it as it's mode of operation is to maintain a
collection of "eggs" either from sources or repos.

Personally I like the virtualenv approach (using pip and a
requirements.txt file) more but in the few projects i have used
buildout it's fine.

As for your other question. Yes if setup.py has changed then you must
make python/distutils be aware of it. That's the only occasion where
you must rerun it, at least that I know of.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Supposing that we have a directory with many eggs that compose our
> framework.
>
> All these eggs  might (or might not be) used by applications that we write.
> So at the moment we run "python setup.py develop" on all of them.
>
> To avoid to waste too much time, however, the builder does a make-like
> operation, checking if "setup.py" was modified.
>
> So since I'm rewriting a new system to build/develop:
> - does it make sense to re-run develop when setup.py changes.
>  And if yes are there other possible conditions which would force me to
> re-run it?
>
> - what could be a good way to implement a similar mechanism?
>  Is there anything already I could use?
>
> I've seen watchdog (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog) which looks very
> interesting,
> and might be good to implement a service, but maybe it's overkill...
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