Hi Shane, > z...@kevinkal.com wrote: >> I've become a big fan of pip. The --freeze option is great. It >> seems that it lets you pin your versions all the way down. I'm just >> watching all of the pain with certain buildout recipes where I could >> imagine them easier to create if the person creating the recipe had >> the possibility to pin every version easily. > > I'm not very familiar with pip, pip, I don't think is a competator for buildout, but an alternative for easyinstall > but I don't think that's an issue for Buildout. Buildout also has the > ability to pin the version of all packages, but I don't think that's > what Jens and I want in this case. > > We want an authority to provide a regularly updated list of Repoze > package versions known to probably work together. Thankfully, the BFG > index is serving that purpose, Ok, I may have missed the main point of this thread, but ... :-) > except that it's not easy to combine that list with the rest of PyPI. I thought it was more about this - which pip can help with. "bin/pip --freeze" produces a list of all eggs in pip's path. One could do a "pip --freeze > versions.cfg"
There is a buildout recipe that uses pip - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gp.recipe.pip .d > I think the problem would be solved if that index took the form of a > versions.cfg (auto-generated would be fine). > > Shane > Again - I'm not sure how far off the point I am with this thread, but when I see buildout mentioned I think of the serious troubles I have had with certain popular recipes and wish that the help with pinning that pip brings to the table would be taken advantage of. Cheers! -Kevin _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
