Ah, I see. So I already have the project in develop mode and don't need to 
rerun setup.py.
Great thank you!

On Thursday, 23 April 2015 12:53:48 UTC+1, Gael Pasgrimaud wrote:
>
> If you're using
>
> [buildout]
> develop = .
>
> then buildout will run python setup.py develop for you
>
> On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 1:18:36 PM UTC+2, Jo G wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question so please 
>> point me elsewhere if it isn't.
>>
>> I am using a buildout script to create an environment which uses the 
>> pyramid framework and substanced. I then create a pyramid project using the 
>> substanced scaffold. This project needs to import some code I have written 
>> and installed using buildout and mr developer as a develop-egg.
>>
>> I can start my application using 
>>
>>     $VENV/bin/pserve development.ini --reload
>>
>> This runs my application but it is not working how I would expect so I 
>> want to debug it.
>>
>> To do this I first type the command
>>
>>      $VENV/bin/python setup.py develop
>>
>> before I start the application . 
>>
>> Unfortunately running setup.py overwrites all my scripts in the bin 
>> folder and downloads eggs from pypi for all the dependencies of my project 
>> (eg pyramid and substanced) into the site-packages folder even though they 
>> are already in .buildout/eggs.  This means that I no longer have my other 
>> develop eggs in my python path and the pyramid app will no longer work. 
>>
>> I have temporarily got round this by removing the requires option in 
>> setup.py before I do setup.py develop.
>>
>> Is there a better way? Am I missing something?
>>
>> I tried specifying install-dir, script-dir and -x to not overwrite 
>> scripts but it wouldn't work because it said those folders were not on my 
>> pythonpath.
>>
>> How do I get setup.py to recognise that the eggs are already installed 
>> somewhere else?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>

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