[Distutils] buildout 1 still not managing to pin buildout to 1.x

Fred Drake fred at fdrake.net
Wed Jun 12 01:48:44 CEST 2013


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> When in doubt, remove .installed.cfg and re-run buildout after any such
> change.

So the real question is:  Why doesn't bootstrap.py just do this?

I've stumbled on this many times as well; I don't see an advantage to
this not being handled by the bootstrap, because it will surprise us
eventually.

Some of us (include me, apparently) are more easily surprised than others.


  -Fred

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