[Distutils] buildout directory computation change

whit morriss d.w.morriss at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 17:28:40 CEST 2008


it looks like something changes in how some vars (ie 
buildout:egg-directory) gets computed between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/Users/whit/dev/geo/alm3//Users/whit/dev/geo/alm3/develop-eggs'

is the resulting error for:

  eggs-directory = ${buildout:directory}/develop-eggs

instead of:

  '/Users/whit/dev/geo/alm3/develop-eggs'

(which I believe works until at least 1.0.2)

buildout seems to implicitly assume I want buildout:directory appended. 
is this a feature, bug, or something I can turn off?


-w



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