On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:

> You have to rely on the recipe documentation.  Recipes should provide
> documentation that describes how they're used, including what their options
> are.  Many recipes make this available as part of their PYPI pages (For
> example, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.deployment). Buildout
> doesn't provide an API for a recipe to register or declare the options it
> provides.  Perhaps it should.

We did work on that in a sprint with Godefroid,  to be able to display
recipe options doc from the command line at the Snow sprint.

But I can't see the branch anymore..

Tarek

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