Hi, When buildout installs develop eggs how does it setup --site-dirs ?
I've tried having a rummage in buildout.py but I don't understand what the Buildout._develop method is doing; It appears to be preparing a environ dict - presumably in preparation for execing the moral equivalent of 'python setup.py develop' - but it does not pass this to zc.buildout.easy_install.develop. It _does_ pass in dest. I can see this comes from buildout['buildout']['develop-eggs-directory']; but it doesn't appear to do anything special to propagate this to --site-dir. I have sometimes works sometimes doesn't symptoms (see below) - Is there current working dir nonsense going on here ? The relevant versions are: zc.buildout.easy_install.picked: zc.buildout = 1.0.0b23 zc.buildout.easy_install.picked: setuptools = 0.6c5 I'm getting this error from running "buildout -vvv install": buildout: Develop: /home/robin/devel-asycamore/recipes zc.buildout.easy_install: in: /home/robin/devel-asycamore/recipes ['/tmp/tmpzqO9yC', '-q', 'develop', '-mxN', '-d', '/home/robin/devel-asycamore/./tmpxiPaPrbuild'] buildout: Develop: /home/robin/devel-asycamore/asycamore-trunk zc.buildout.easy_install: in: /home/robin/devel-asycamore/asycamore-trunk ['/tmp/tmp06R7ze', '-q', 'develop', '-mxN', '-d', '/home/robin/devel-asycamore/./tmppOiykWbuild'] error: /home/robin/devel-servers (in --site-dirs) is not on sys.path While: Installing Processing develop directory /home/robin/devel-asycamore/asycamore-trunk An internal error occured ... This is my first pass through working with zc.buildout and I think my buildout.cfg suspect. I have a recipe that does an svn co/up, a part that 'installs' sources using it, and dependent part that builds a release egg. At the very top I'm also listing the 'part' produced svn checkout as a 'develop' egg. As develop eggs get built before non develop eggs I dont think this will work in a single pass but even so the --site-dirs error was not what I was expecting. Is there a 'right way' tm to have a buildout install a develop link based on a part produced checkout ? I got some hints from this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-January/007160.html but didn't see any clear recommendations. My buildout - such as it is - can be found here: http://svn.wiretooth.com/svn/open/asycamore.developer/trunk/ Cheers, Robin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig