29 Mar
2009
29 Mar
'09
6:35 p.m.
Jim Fulton wrote at 2009-3-29 12:02 -0400:
... 2. Backtracking is more practical in buildout than with easy_install. easy_install (not sure about pip) does conflict detection/resolution at run time, whereas buildout does it at build time. Slow conflict resolution is a lot more practical when you don't do it every time you start a script.
Are you sure? I think "setuptools" usually only searches for distributions during installation time. Runtime distribution searching is restricted to the "require" call and relevant only for multi version eggs. -- Dieter