[Distutils] buildout: several fold performance increases

[Ross Patterson]

Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> writes:

> On 22-01-12 02:37, Ross Patterson wrote:
>> Also, with this approach, it may be possible to do
>> global dist caching which can be updated as things are changed by
>> hooking into zc.buildout.easy_install's develop(), install(), and
>> build().  Thoughts?
>
> Would any work you do in this area make it easier to handle selected
> global packages? The hard point there seems to me to keep track of
> what is coming from where. When buildout has a firmer grip itself on
> where what dist is, doing advanced tricks with them might be easier.

Not quite following you yet.  Can you elaborate?  If you could also
provide examples, that would be great.

Ross