[Distutils] Distribute and zc.buildout + bootstraping file names + release/branches roadmap

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>>> for the scripts created in zc.recipe.egg sections, so distribute is
>>> included in the sys.path
>>> since this recipe re-creates it.
>> Am I right in thinking this wouldn't be needed if zc.buildout and
>> zc.recipe.egg both depended on distribute rather than setuptools?
> 
> Yes, but I think this takes more energy and more time to convince Jim, then
> work in zc.buildout

It really doesn't look like a lot of work, in fact I knocked up a branch 
that shows just that:

http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/branches/use_distribute/

The changeset required was actually pretty small:

http://zope3.pov.lt/trac/changeset/102544

When a distribute egg gets released, I'll try running these tests and 
see what happens...

> If we take the plone example, every single egg has it (because it's in
> the zopeskel skeleton)

*sigh* Plone suck strikes again :-(

> I'd rather be able to run already released eggs in my buildout today
> rather than waiting for
> the crowd to adopt it.
> 
> Plus, people wont adopt it if they can't taste it,

I guess that's the way it needs to be, and all for the stubbornness of 
Phil Eby...

>>> bootstraping.py replaces ez_setup.py
>> Oh Tarek, you really do know how to pick names...
>>
>> Any chance you could switch this to distribute_setup.py or maybe d_setup.py
>> to avoid dumb people like me constantly confusing the two?
> 
> Sure. distribute_setup.py sounds good, I can change.  That will be the
> name, no further
> change :)

Thanks.

Chris

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