On Aug 27, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote: > On 08/27/2010 04:12 PM, Gary Poster wrote: >> >> I realize that a system Python happened to work for you before. >> >> That's a bit awkward, because with pre-1.5.0 zc.buildout, using a system >> Python was not supported. >> >> Therefore, your recipe was not supported. > > "my recipe"? osc.recipe.sysegg is not something that *I* made, I'm just > using it. "Is not supported" sounds like a helpdesk telling me "linux is not > supported". > > And "not supported"? osc.recipe.sysegg installs the specific eggs I tell it > to find (in the system python) as develop eggs. A nice trick that works > pretty well.
...Not sure what to tell you there. Jim has been clear from the beginning that system Pythons were not supported with buildout. I added support. Anything before then happened to work. >> No, but single buildouts are used to install different sections with >> entirely different requirements, including different Python versions. >> >>> The current implementation makes it look like every single part that needs >>> the system matplotlib needs to have a configuration for "look in the system >>> for matplotlib". >> >> Yes, parts are individually installed, per my statement above. > > What? I've never ever seen a buildout that has to work with different python > versions in different parts. A plone buildout just uses one python. A > django buildout, too. So it sounds to me like some impressive > over-engineering? This is something that has been with buildout from the beginning, and has nothing to do with my changes. I've also found it useful, FWIW, both for applications and libraries. > Note, I don't intend to offend with that statement :-) It's just that I'm > thinking "I'll stick to 1.4.4 for the next half year and I'll re-check > whether it all works again afterwards". And I don't like that kind of > thought, being that I'm using buildout a lot. I introduced it in my current > company. I (co-)wrote recipes. So it feels a bit dangerous if I'm not > happily jumping on the newest version ;-) > > > Anway... I'll delve deeper into it in one or two weeks :-) OK. Gary _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
