[Distutils] buildout.dumppickedversions and buildout_versions

[Benji York]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
> On 03-01-13 14:03, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>
>> I consider buildout-versions to be essential for my use of buildout.
>
>
> Agreed. I'm using 2.0a for a personal project now, but I cannot
> realistically use it for projects I work on with others without something
> like buildout-versions.
>
> Personally, a "warn-about-picked-versions = true" setting name sounds too
> harsh. For me, "print-unpicked-versions" would be a better indication of
> what I want. Just a list of pins that's printed after buildout is finished
> that I can copy/paste into my buildout config if I want to pin them.

I don't know about 2.0, but in the 1.x line of buildout some number of
-v options will give you a list of picked versions that is easy to
transmute into a versions.cfg.

Here is the config I use in Vim to add a :MungeVersions command that
takes the -vvvv output in the current buffer and makes it into "PACKAGE
= VERSION" lines:

com! -bar MungeVersionsGrep %!grep "Picked:"
com! MungeVersions silent MungeVersionsGrep | silent %s/Picked: // |
%sort | silent %!uniq

It is just a tiny shell script wrapped in a candy coating.
-- 
Benji York