[Distutils] offline coding, svn:externals, and ez_setup

[Todd Greenwood-Geer]

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Ok. I'll fall back to copying the file in the offline scenario. Thanks.

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
| At 10:32 AM 12/14/2005 -0800, Todd Greenwood-Geer wrote:
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|> I'm finding that I'm coding online and offline. When I'm offline, I
|> would really like to use the svn:externals definition for ez_setup. It
|> seems that the best way to do this would be to create a 'peak' project
|> just for the ez_setup files. Then, when I'm online, I can sync 'peak'
|> and get the latest ez_setup files. When I'm offline, I could reference
|> the 'peak' project in my other python projects that use setuptools. I've
|> tried this, but so far, I keep getting just a blank directory when my
|> projects reference 'peak'.
|
| Subversion doesn't chain externals, so there isn't a good solution for
what
| you're trying to do.  You should probably just use ez_setup.py instead of
| ez_setup/__init__.py.
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| The main advantage to using svn:externals is that it gets you (and anyone
| who checks out your project) an updated ez_setup/__init__.py just by
| running svn update.
|
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