[Distutils] zc.buildout, recipe downloading dev eggs

[Justin Ryan]

Jim?  Anyone?  I agree the behaviour we discussed makes sense, but I'm
unclear why it doesn't work as discussed, it isn't documented, and I
haven't found a clear indicator in the source that it should work,
though I clearly could learn a bit more about buildout recipes.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Justin Ryan <justizin at vongogo.net> wrote:
> On closer inspection, the zc.recipe.egg documentation doesn't make any
> mention of this feature, though I think it's a great idea and hats off
> to the author if it was originally intended to work that way but
> doesn't, or maybe broke at some point because a contributor didn't
> understand the feature.
>
> If there's some work to be done, I'm happy to help.
>
> I really want this style of buildout usage to be possible.
>
> Let's work together!  Our Foundation's goals line up with Zope extremeley well!
>
> :)
>
> Peace,
>
> J
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Justin Ryan <justizin at vongogo.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> No.  buildout doesn't care when develop eggs are created. If you use the buildout develop option to create develop eggs, then they are created early.  If you use the zc.recipe.egg:develop recipe, or some other recipe that creates develop eggs, then you can create them later.
>>>
>>> Ah, fantastic, I came to an understanding of this last week or so, but some example usage I found led me to believe it wouldn't work.
>>>
>>> Perfect!  Thanks.
>>>
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>>
>> OK, I gave this a shot in a simple case, a buildout you can find here:
>>
>>  http://dev.vongogo.net/bzr/repos/buildouts/getpaid.buildout/
>>
>> The develop option in getpaid.cfg seems to be ignored entirely, I
>> don't see any messages like "We have a develop egg", and it fails to
>> find a distribution for yoma.batching, which is in the develop list,
>> though it finds others which are available in PyPI.
>>
>> If I'm working on another false assumption, or parsed something from
>> you or the documentation wrong, please correct.  I just want to be
>> able to deploy in this style. :)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> J
>>
>> --
>> Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn."
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