[Zope3-Users] Re: buildout and egg depedencies

2007-12-13 Thread Martin Aspeli
Hi Jeff, In general, once you understand that recipes are just eggs, loaded with an entry point, and that options are passed around in dicts-of-dicts, I find buildout pretty easy to get to grips with. I understand that they're eggs with entry points. But that doesn't help me figure out all of

[Zope3-Users] Re: buildout and egg depedencies

2007-12-12 Thread Martin Aspeli
Hi Jeff, How did it come to be that the Python tools are so bad at this? To be fair, it's a hard problem. In Java land, you have similar problems with JARs in that they frequently have the same filename but different versions and there's no nice way that I know of to manage conflicts. Most

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: buildout and egg depedencies

2007-12-12 Thread Jeff Shell
On Dec 12, 2007 3:07 PM, Martin Aspeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The doc-test is difficult to read and speaks in generics, not about day-to-day problems. The Recipes are even worse, leaving one to clamor through the web to get back to the cheeseshop page and then face the same difficult to