[Distutils] [buildout] buildout 1.5 sometime ever please?

[Dave Peticolas]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster at canonical.com>wrote:

>
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >
> > I'm testing out the beta branch
>
> Thank you!
>
> > and running into a problem. I'm running buildout from a virtualenv,
> > and when I try to install the 'superlance' package, I get this:
> >
> >   The required version of setuptools (>=0.6c9) is not available, and
> >   can't be installed while this script is running. Please install
> >   a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U setuptools'.
> >
> >   (Currently using setuptools 0.6c8 (/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages))
> >   error: Setup script exited with 2
> >
> > This is despite the fact that I have 0.6c11 installed in the virtualenv.
> This seems to be caused
> > by the fact that the buildout bin script has this:
> >
> >   import sys
> >   sys.path[0:0] = [
> >       '/tmp/ve/eggs/zc.buildout-1.5.0b2-py2.5.egg',
> >       '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
> >       ]
> >
> > And thus picks up the older version of setuptools in /usr/lib/python2.5.
> I tried removing those lines,
> > but buildout seems to be re-creating that file when I run it.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> (1) This may be unrelated to your problem, but I have *not* added support
> for using a virtualenv without --no-site-packages, and AFAIK it was never
> supported.  It looks like you are not using --no-site-packages in your
> virtualenv, so I  don't support that.
>

Gotcha. And adding --no-site-packages does seem to have cleared up my
problem. Thank you!



> (2) It looks like you are using an old bootstrap.  In addition to using the
> code from the svn+ssh://
> svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/branches/gary-betafix/ branch (I guess
> you made your own release?), you also need to make sure you are using the
> bootstrap if you want to use the new feature without virtualenv.
>

I pretty much always use buildout in a virtualenv. In my test, I'm creating
the virtualenv, and then using easy_install to install buildout from a
checkout
of your branch. Is there a better way to run the test?



> That said, the old bootstrap should still work with virtualenv + the new
> release, and if it doesn't that's a reasonable backwards-compatibility bug.
>  I'll look into that later to see if that's the case.
>
> Gary
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