On 9/17/11 4:27 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
Hi,
Buildout and system packages are apparently hard. Buildout 1.5.x tries
hard to get it working, but I cannot get it to work (reliably), for
instance.
Perhaps the problem is that we're trying too hard. Both buildout 1.5.x
and the osc.recipe.sysegg recipe that I'm using on 1.4.x are trying to
look up packages and trying to include them in the path.
What you normally want is just to use the system's PIL and mapnik and
numpy. All stuff that you really don't want to build from source. So
you assume it is installed with a clicky-clicky installer on windows
and with apt-get on ubuntu.
Why not use this assumption? Add an "assumed-available" option to
buildout that lists the eggs that are assumed to be available locally?
No need to actually search them (which is the thing that breaks 1.5.x
for me). Just make sure the regular python path is in place as the
last item in sys.path.
Possible addition: allow a dotted path as a second parameter after the
"assumed-available" eggs: buildout tries to import that path to check
the availability of the egg that's assumed to be available.
So: if you need system eggs, you won't run buildout without system
paths. Only thing left is to tell buildout that certain eggs are
available locally so that it doesn't search for it. Just assume
they're there and leave it at that.
collective.recipe.mockedeggs may be of use.
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