[Distutils] buildout & develop

[Benji York]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am in the current situation, I have an application that uses a lot of
> libraries (ETS / pyqt...).
>
> In plus there for every application there are a lot of eggs, which are
> actually directory eggs.
>
> At the moment we run everything in a brutal way messing up with the system,
> but I thought
> that we can change this using
> - a pypi server on localhost
> - zc.buildout and smarter setup.py files
>
> To run in production mode it looks relatively easy, build the eggs in a
> place
> where the pypiserver looks and run everything.
>
> But is it possible to use the equivalent of "setup.py develop"?

The "develop" option should do what you want:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/1.5.2#work-on-a-package

> Ideally whenever I save a new file it should run the python setup.py develop
> only for that
> where it belongs, any idea on how to do something like this?

I'm afraid I didn't understand your question.

-- 
Benji York