On Mar 19, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > Gary Poster wrote: >> If you are a newbie, I strongly suggest sticking with the released versions. >> What I have done has zero guarantee of Jim merging it. > > If he doesn't, how about a fork? ;-)
Rather not. >> Moreover, the instructions on how a newbie can use this stuff from source >> are not worth my time or yours, IMO. > > I'm not so sure, can't see what should prevent a new user trying all of > this... They would need to make eggs or sdists and put them in a download-cache, for instance. If you'd like to volunteer the support, go for it. :-) > >> On the other hand, if you are asking how you *would* use a system Python if >> my branches were merged, you would use the new version of zc.buildout, and >> use z3c.recipe.scripts where you normally would have used zc.recipe.egg, > > Why is z3c.recipe.scripts required? Backwards compatibility. It has the new behavior. zc.recipe.eggs has the old behavior. Gary _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
