Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-29 Thread Ian Bicking
Jim Fulton wrote: Ian Bicking wrote: Martin Aspeli wrote: whit wrote: actually, in my current workplace, workingenv is the standard way to set up one's dev environment. but in the context of the previous statement, familar is perhaps a better word. I'm still not clear how widely used work

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-28 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: Martin Aspeli wrote: whit wrote: actually, in my current workplace, workingenv is the standard way to set up one's dev environment. but in the context of the previous statement, familar is perhaps a better word. I'm still not clear how widely used workingenv is? Is it "o

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-28 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: Martin Aspeli wrote: ... If lib/python/Foo-1.0.egg/ is on the path to start with you can import from it directly. This is what zc.reipe.egg does I believe. It activates (i.e., adds eggs to the path) in the scripts. I think setuptools' egg activation will be superfluou

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-28 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: ... I would assume that buildout is specifically disabling easy_install's updating of easy-install.pth WRT egg installation, buildout follows easy_install's multi-version model. It installs eggs in such a way that multiple versions can be installed at the same time. As with

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-26 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: If *Plone* becomes incompatible with workingenv that'd be bothersome I agree. But if a buildout is incompatible, eh... who knows, I would hope that buildout would not have to be compatible with workingenv, whatever that means, in order for Plone to be

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-26 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I actually tried to do this once before with zc.buildout, but I didn't get far -- probably a result of lack of effort and lack of familiarity with the overall stack. But I also recognize lots of the questions about stuff like the zope.conf file and Data.fs t

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-26 Thread Jim Fulton
whit wrote: I'm not clear on what the advantage would be. I'm probably missing some use cases. I think they are both valid approaches to the problem. my main usecase is to be able to use buildouts in a workingenv without having to rewrite the recipes... right now, I have to do one or the oth

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Bicking
Jim Fulton wrote: I actually tried to do this once before with zc.buildout, but I didn't get far -- probably a result of lack of effort and lack of familiarity with the overall stack. But I also recognize lots of the questions about stuff like the zope.conf file and Data.fs that still seem unres

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Bicking
Jim Fulton wrote: If *Plone* becomes incompatible with workingenv that'd be bothersome I agree. But if a buildout is incompatible, eh... who knows, I would hope that buildout would not have to be compatible with workingenv, whatever that means, in order for Plone to be compatible. Then

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jan 25, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: workingenv is development-centric, while buildout is deployment- centric. This does not necessarily mean "the best tool for the job", because focusing on development and ignore deployment isn't a good job, nor the other way around. buildout

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jan 25, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: Whit pointed me to this thread. Yeah, someone pointed me to it too. :) I won't reply to specifics, but maybe just describe what we're doing (and planning to do), and how workingenv differs from zc.buildout. I'll avoid responding to gene

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Fulton
I hate to jump into this thread but I'll make a few comments. On Jan 25, 2007, at 5:13 PM, whit wrote: Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: whit wrote: Martin Aspeli wrote: Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: This is awesome, and by that I don't mean the fact that we have a plone buildout,