[Distutils] Struggling with a modular buildout configuration

2012-08-15 Thread Lele Gaifax
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a modular buildout configuration, but I'm hitting my head on an invisible wall... Basically, I'd like to have a top-level buildout.cfg that collects settings from various subprojects; in particular, each subproject may augment a set of eggs, some of which may be

Re: [Distutils] the 'wheel' binary package format

2012-08-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
You might also want to take a look at the prebuilt binary format which we have been using for several years now, e.g. http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ The idea is a little different from what you describe, but works well: we essentially take a snapshot of the package after it was

Re: [Distutils] the 'wheel' binary package format

2012-08-15 Thread Daniel Holth
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: You might also want to take a look at the prebuilt binary format which we have been using for several years now, e.g. http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ The idea is a little different from what you describe,