[Grok-dev] a grok installer download Was: Re: remove the download tarball functionality from grokproject?

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

Roger Erens wrote:

> IIRC, there's also this possibility: a user who wants to install Grok
> is already using a default.cfg, in which the path to the Python
> interpreter is set to one that Grok doesn't like currently, e.g.
> 
> executable = /usr/local/python/2.4/bin/python
> or to an incompatible interpreter
> executabe = /usr/local/python/3.1/bin/python

In general it's going to be hard to guarantee that this will work in all 
circumstances. We hardcode the path to a known-good python interpreter 
in buildout.cfg, as any hardcoded paths in buildout.cfg destroy the 
repeatability of the build on another platform.

What we do now is just leave it alone if it's already there.

In theory it'd be nice if we could isolate the user entirely, but that 
looks hard to do.

Regards,

Martijn