[Distutils] buildout and system packages: a simpler idea?

[Benji York]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Buildout and system packages are apparently hard. Buildout 1.5.x tries hard
> to get it working, but I cannot get it to work (reliably), for instance.
>
> Perhaps the problem is that we're trying too hard. Both buildout 1.5.x and
> the osc.recipe.sysegg recipe that I'm using on 1.4.x are trying to look up
> packages and trying to include them in the path.
>
> What you normally want is just to use the system's PIL and mapnik and numpy.
> All stuff that you really don't want to build from source. So you assume it
> is installed with a clicky-clicky installer on windows and with apt-get on
> ubuntu.

There's another thing you might want when using a system Python: to
exclude some packages.  I suspect that's what makes it hard.
-- 
Benji York