[Distutils] buildout 2 craziness: bootstrap.py doesn't do enough

[Jim Fulton]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Chris Withers <chris at python.org> wrote:
> On 05/04/2013 12:15, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>
>> Check develop-eggs/, there may be a distribute.egg-link file that puts
>>
>> /Library/Frameworks/EPD64.framework/Versions/7.3/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>> in your sys.path.
>>
>> When in doubt, rm -rf develop-eggs before retrying.
>
>
> Well, this worked.
>
> My guess as to what happened: I was using python2.7 (which is EPD,
> containing a tonne of packages including an older version of xlrd).

BTW, I have no idea what EPD means.

>
> Since that xlrd was getting picked instead of the one in the develop line
> (wasn't that bug supposed to be fixed in buildout 2?!)

There was quite a bit of discussion about this recently and there
was no consensus that develop eggs should be preferred to
over non-develop eggs with higher versions.

> I switched to
> python2.6, which I knew was clean.
>
> It sounds like I should have had the prescience (!) to do:
>
> rm -rf develop-eggs/ .installed.cfg
>
> ...before I did:
>
> python2.6 bootstrap.py
>
> *sigh*
>
> At times like this (when I've just wasted 1.5hrs chasing my tail) I really
> truly hate buildout :-(

It's times like this that I really really hate it when people insist on using
dirty Pythons when they should know better.

Jim

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