At 02:20 PM 2/10/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: >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. :)
Ah, but setuptools has a ==dev06, and I think other people have used other tags to denote various SVN branches. The name used to denote the version is incidental, IOW, so that way lies N special cases, all different. :) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
