Tres Seaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Aspeli wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We normally put development eggs under version control while people are >> working on them. However, when they are installed (by buildout, in our >> case, but I assume "python setup.py develop" is similar), a >> <package>.egg-info directory is created. >> >> Putting this under version control seems problematic, because developers >> tend to get conflicts in PKG-INFO and similar files. Thus, I tend to set >> svn ignores on the whole directory. People have to re-do the develop egg >> installation locally anyway. >> >> However, when using Paster with local commands, it writes a >> paster_plugins.txt file to the egg-info which doesn't seem to be >> re-created when I re-run buildout (again, I assume "python setup.py >> develop" would behave in the same way). That means that for Paster local >> commands to continue to work, I have to set ignores on almost everything >> in the egg-info directory, but not that file, which is cumbersome and >> error prone. >> >> Am I missing something here? What's the best strategy for putting >> develop eggs under version control? Is this an issue with Paster or with >> eggs in general? I'm assuming other things that extend the egg-info >> would have similar problems. > > IMNSHO, anything in the .egg-info directory should be considered a > derived file, and therefore NOT placed under version control (we don't > check in .o / .so / .dll files either). If some tool can't recreate the > files it needs on demand in that directory, that would be a bug in that > tool (or perhaps the mode in which it is invoked).
That was my impression too. If that's a safe assumption to make, then we can continue to say that *.egg-info goes in svn:ignores. I can't figure out from http://pythonpaste.org/script/developer.html how the files are supposed to be created though. Wiping egg-info and re-running buildout certainly doesn't re-create it. Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
