Rick Morrison wrote: > > I keep two versions of SA installed here, one is a stable > version installed in the Python site-packages folder, and one > is current trunk with some local patches for testing. > > I used to be able to run tests and programs using the local > version by just inserting the local directory into the Python > path, and imports would then use that. > > I've recently upgraded to setuptools 0.6c5 and that doesn't > seem to work anymore -- I now always get the version from the > site-packages folder. > > Anyone running this kind of configuration out there run into > something like this? >
The way I've done this is to run 'python setup.py develop' in the SVN checkout. This puts the path to the checkout in easy-install.pth, and it also creates an SQLAlchemy.egg-link file with the same path - I don't know what this is used for. To go back to the stable version I run 'easy_install -U SQLAlchemy'. This seems to work on both Windows and Linux, but I am only on setuptools 0.6c3. This is probably more complicated than it needs to be - I would have thought you can switch just by editing the easy-install.pth file. The correct way is probably to use setuptools' --multi-version switch, and put pkg_resources.require() somewhere in your application, but I've not used that yet. Another thing that I've found very useful (on Linux) is this: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#creating-a-virtual-p ython Particularly with fast-moving projects like SQLAlchemy and TurboGears, trying to share a single copy of a library between multiple applications without breaking them every time I upgraded the library was getting tricky. There's also working-env: http://blog.ianbicking.org/workingenv-update.html which I haven't tried yet, but has the advantage of working on Windows (apparently). Hope that helps, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
