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I just converted Mailman 3 to use zc.buildout. Thanks to Gary Poster
for providing some good examples and the impetus for my force vacation
hacking. :)
I especially like being able to specify defaults in my ~/.buildout/
default.cfg file. One thing that bugs me though is that I can't use
environment variables like $HOME there. This is a minor pain because
I can't share my .buildout directory between Linux and OS X machines
(say, via version control). It appears as though I have to be
explicit in the path, with /Users/barry on OS X and /home/barry on
Linux.
Similarly, in my buildout.cfg file, if I include a develop field
pointing to some source directories (other than .), I can't use $HOME/
projects/foo/bar here.
Any thoughts on supporting environment variables in .cfg files? Or do
they work and I'm just experiencing operator error? ;)
A couple of other minor questions. In my ~/.buildout/default.cfg
file, I have
[buildout]
eggs-directory=/Users/barry/.buildout/eggs
download-cache=/Users/barry/.buildout/download-cache
This is great because I can share that stuff between lots of
development branches. However buildout will create the eggs directory
if needed, but complain that download-cache doesn't exist. It seems
like buildout could/should create download-cache on demand.
I'm also wondering, does it make sense to put develop-eggs and parts
in say ~/.buildout? I kind of dislike having artifacts like these
live in my version controlled source directory (well, there's bin too,
but I can kind of live with that). What's the best way of doing that?
Thanks,
Barry
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