[Distutils] Help with buildout

[Alex Clark]

On 2013-03-30 23:32:28 +0000, John Anderson said:

> I'm trying to use buildout to pull in 4 github repositories and combine 
> their wsgi applications together using paste's urlmap.  A few things 
> aren't working the way I expect and so I'm looking for some more 
> information:
> 
> This is my buildout.cfg:
> 
> https://github.com/sontek/notaliens.com/blob/master/buildout.cfg
> 
> 1. I had to declare a [pyramid] section that pulls in Pyramid with the 
> zc.recipe.egg recipe so that it would drop the entry_point scripts in 
> the generated bin/ folder.   Is there a way for it to do this from 
> dependencies declared in my install_requires in setup.py rather than 
> being declared in the buildout?


AFAIK, and assuming I understand your question, no. The recipes (or 
extensions) do all the work.


> 
> 2. The 2nd problem is after I run buildout, I'm not able to import 
> paste.deploy:
> 
> I see the egg in my sys.path:
> 
> bin/py
> >>> import sys
> >>> sys.path
> <cut>
>  
> '/home/sontek/code/test_notaliens/notaliens.com/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.5.0-py2.7.egg', 
> 
> 
> 
> but if I try to import from it:
> 
> >>> from paste.deploy import loadserver
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named deploy
> 
> PasteDeploy is defined as a dependency and gets pulled in properly but 
> for some reason the interpreter isn't seeing it.
> 
> 
> any ideas?


Remove .installed.cfg and try again, works for me with this buildout:  
https://gist.github.com/aclark4life/5281288


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