On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 12:54 PM 2/10/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: ...
>> (Note: Buildout uses PackageIndex to locate and fetch distributions. >> It then installs distributions itself. if the distribution is >> already an egg, then this is straightforward. Otherwise, buildout >> invokes easy_install to do the installation. It can't get a return >> value from easy_install, so it uses an Environment to find the egg >> that easy_install created.) > > Note that easy_install can be told to --record what files it > installs, so you could build a WorkingSet or Environment from that > list. I looked at that a while back. I don't remember why I didn't take that approach. At this point, I think it would be easier to special-case ==dev. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
