On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Gary Poster <gary.pos...@canonical.com>wrote:
> > On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > ... > > > > > I'm testing out the beta branch > > Thank you! > > > and running into a problem. I'm running buildout from a virtualenv, > > and when I try to install the 'superlance' package, I get this: > > > > The required version of setuptools (>=0.6c9) is not available, and > > can't be installed while this script is running. Please install > > a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U setuptools'. > > > > (Currently using setuptools 0.6c8 (/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages)) > > error: Setup script exited with 2 > > > > This is despite the fact that I have 0.6c11 installed in the virtualenv. > This seems to be caused > > by the fact that the buildout bin script has this: > > > > import sys > > sys.path[0:0] = [ > > '/tmp/ve/eggs/zc.buildout-1.5.0b2-py2.5.egg', > > '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', > > ] > > > > And thus picks up the older version of setuptools in /usr/lib/python2.5. > I tried removing those lines, > > but buildout seems to be re-creating that file when I run it. > > > > Any suggestions? > > (1) This may be unrelated to your problem, but I have *not* added support > for using a virtualenv without --no-site-packages, and AFAIK it was never > supported. It looks like you are not using --no-site-packages in your > virtualenv, so I don't support that. > Gotcha. And adding --no-site-packages does seem to have cleared up my problem. Thank you! > (2) It looks like you are using an old bootstrap. In addition to using the > code from the svn+ssh:// > svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/branches/gary-betafix/ branch (I guess > you made your own release?), you also need to make sure you are using the > bootstrap if you want to use the new feature without virtualenv. > I pretty much always use buildout in a virtualenv. In my test, I'm creating the virtualenv, and then using easy_install to install buildout from a checkout of your branch. Is there a better way to run the test? > That said, the old bootstrap should still work with virtualenv + the new > release, and if it doesn't that's a reasonable backwards-compatibility bug. > I'll look into that later to see if that's the case. > > Gary
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