[Distutils] Building an egg from Subversion using zc.buildout
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Jan 30 00:03:31 CET 2007
At 10:37 PM 1/29/2007 +0000, Martin Aspeli wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> > Development snapshots of setuptools can be checked out with
> > "setuptools==dev", and that will always download a new version because the
> > installed version is always a version like 0.6c2dev-r51290 or
> > something. This doesn't match ==dev, thereby forcing easy_install to
> > download a fresh copy.
>
>Could you explain how the find-link would work with an ==dev version
>specification?
#egg=archetypes.kss-dev
That is, use 'dev' as the version in the link. The combination of an ==dev
version specification and a #egg=projectname-dev tag means that the code
will be downloaded and rebuilt *every* time, however.
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