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

[Gary Poster]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Dave Peticolas wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster at canonical.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Dave Peticolas wrote:
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> > I'm testing out the beta branch
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> Thank you!
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> > and running into a problem. I'm running buildout from a virtualenv,
> > and when I try to install the 'superlance' package, I get this:
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> >   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'.
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> >   (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:
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> >   import sys
> >   sys.path[0:0] = [
> >       '/tmp/ve/eggs/zc.buildout-1.5.0b2-py2.5.egg',
> >       '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
> >       ]
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> > 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?
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> (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.
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> Gotcha. And adding --no-site-packages does seem to have cleared up my problem. Thank you!

Awesome, thank you for giving it a whirl.

> (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.
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> 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's probably fine.  I have a shared download-cache, so when I test, I make an sdist, put it in my download-cache, and give it a whirl.

Gary