Jim? Anyone? I agree the behaviour we discussed makes sense, but I'm unclear why it doesn't work as discussed, it isn't documented, and I haven't found a clear indicator in the source that it should work, though I clearly could learn a bit more about buildout recipes.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On closer inspection, the zc.recipe.egg documentation doesn't make any > mention of this feature, though I think it's a great idea and hats off > to the author if it was originally intended to work that way but > doesn't, or maybe broke at some point because a contributor didn't > understand the feature. > > If there's some work to be done, I'm happy to help. > > I really want this style of buildout usage to be possible. > > Let's work together! Our Foundation's goals line up with Zope extremeley > well! > > :) > > Peace, > > J > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>> >>>> No. buildout doesn't care when develop eggs are created. If you use the >>>> buildout develop option to create develop eggs, then they are created >>>> early. If you use the zc.recipe.egg:develop recipe, or some other recipe >>>> that creates develop eggs, then you can create them later. >>> >>> Ah, fantastic, I came to an understanding of this last week or so, but some >>> example usage I found led me to believe it wouldn't work. >>> >>> Perfect! Thanks. >>> >> >> >> OK, I gave this a shot in a simple case, a buildout you can find here: >> >> http://dev.vongogo.net/bzr/repos/buildouts/getpaid.buildout/ >> >> The develop option in getpaid.cfg seems to be ignored entirely, I >> don't see any messages like "We have a develop egg", and it fails to >> find a distribution for yoma.batching, which is in the develop list, >> though it finds others which are available in PyPI. >> >> If I'm working on another false assumption, or parsed something from >> you or the documentation wrong, please correct. I just want to be >> able to deploy in this style. :) >> >> Best, >> >> J >> >> -- >> Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn." >> > > > > -- > Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn." > -- Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn." _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
