On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Reinout van Rees <[email protected]> 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.
There's another thing you might want when using a system Python: to exclude some packages. I suspect that's what makes it hard. -- Benji York _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
