On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Gary Poster <gary.pos...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
... >> The subprocess hack sounds a bit dirty, though. It makes me feel like I'm >> working around buildout. > > FWIW, It's what buildout does for itself all over the place. It's also > reasonable to my mind if you want to explicitly break through an isolation > barrier like this, but I won't argue taste. Buildout uses subprocess to run setup scripts. That's pretty much all. It runs setups scripts in a subprocess because they are written expecting to be the main program and could do all sorts of things that could break buildout if run in process. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig