On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > On 15/12/2012 09:33, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> >> Alex Clark <acl...@aclark.net> writes: >> >>> 19:43 < cullerton> Folks, there's something wonky going on with >>> buildout this morning. When I run bootstrap, it creates a buildout >>> script using buildout 2.0. >>> 0a4. This fails with an error (TypeError: get_dist() takes exactly 4 >>> arguments (3 given)). Changing the version to buildout 1.4.4 seems to >>> fix things. >> >> >> FYI, I just met the same error (using 2.0.0a5), and the culprit was the >> buildout.dumppickedversion extension, that monkey-patches the >> easy_install.py::Installer._get_dist() method (it surprised me at first >> that the error message mentions “get_dist()” but at the referenced line >> in easy_install.py there is a call to “_get_dist()”...). It took a pdb >> session and a “p inspect.getmodule(self._get_dist)” to find out what's >> going on. > > > Yeah, the stuff that buildout.dumppickedversions and buildout_versions > provide should just be in the core. > > Jim, if I worked up a pull request would you merge it?
Maybe :) I tried to look at buildout.dumppickedversions and buildout_versions and I couldn't quite tell what they were for or how they were different. Are they different? Or are they 2 versions of the same thing? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/buildout.dumppickedversions gives me a fair idea what it does, but http://pypi.python.org/pypi/buildout-versions looks like almost the same thing and http://packages.python.org/buildout_versions/index.html doesn't state what problem it solves. I realize that a tool to help manage version pins would be helpful. I punted on this when I added the versions feature. Before adding this feature to buildout, I'd like a clearer statement of what problems are being solved and what the approach is. Alternatively, I'd be open to adding an API to make writing an extension possible without depending on internal implementation details. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
