On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Reinout van Rees <rein...@vanrees.org> wrote: > What's the current best way to use both distribute and buildout? Apart from > the bootstrap + apparently needed change in buildout, I've got the following > questions: > > - Do my libraries have to list a dependency on distribute or on setuptools? > Everything zopish has a 'setuptools >= 0.6c9' in it. I tried putting > distribute in there, but I seemed to get less problems with leaving it at > setuptools. >
No. Once we've resolved the problem you've mentioned in the hardcoded setuptools dependency, you will have an empty Setuptools 0.6c9 egg in eggs/ so libs that ask for this dependency will think it's met. > - Should just globally installing distribute be enough? Everything ought to > keep working. It does lead to a bunch of runtime warnings in buildout, > however. (But Tarek has targeted that problem for the upcoming 0.6.4 :-) We still require a specific zc.buildout bootstrap.py, otherwise you will have a local setuptools egg that will override any global installation. > > - Do I need to change buildout's bootstrap already? Doing that tries to change > my global setuptools, for which you need to sudo. And it also forces > everyone else using that buildout to switch (which in itself is OK). It shouldn't touch anything outside your buildout, please try with the latest one at buildout-distribute at bitbucket. > > - From my experiments (not exhaustive! no real debugging!) it seems that the > only safe way is to first install distribute globally before touching a > buildout that brings in distribute. Is this to be expected? The Distribute installation will try to patch any setuptools found in the path so it doesn't interfer. In a buildout environment, if it changes anything globally, it's a bug of our patching code and not intended, unless your buildout environment, somehow, uses a global setuptools. But I don't think this can happen. Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! | 开源传万世，因有你参与 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
