[Zope-dev] Re: ploneout - Or how using zc.buildout for a common Zope2 project might look like

[Jim Fulton]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>
>>>> The first step to compatibility is deciding what it means. :)
>>>> I'm all in favor of workingenv/buildout compatibility.
>>>> I'd like to see some specifics of how people would like
>>>> to use workingenv amd buildout together.  I have some guesses,
>>>> but I'd rather hear people say what they want to do.
>>>> I think this would be much more useful than a discussion
>>>> of implementation details at this point.  Once we know what
>>>> we want the end result to be, I'm sure you and I can work out
>>>> some implementation that makes sense.
>>> I agree, and I find myself a bit confused by this orientation as well.
>>>
>>> The main use case I could imagine wanting to solve would be that I'd 
>>> like to run 'python' inside zc.buildout and have an interactive 
>>> prompt that had all the eggs that zc.buildout knew about available. 
>>> That is, I'd like to be able to do "from zope.interface import ..." 
>>> and so on.
>>
>> As I mentioned before, this is already supported:
>>
>>    [buildout]
>>    parts = ... foo ...
>>
>>    [foo]
>>    recipe=zc.recipe.egg
>>    eggs = egg1 egg2 ...
>>    interpreter = mypy
>>
>> After running the buildout, you will have bin/mypy.
> 
> Oh, didn't see that. That's cool! :)
> 
>> If you run bin/mypy, then you'll get a Python prompt and you can import
>> and use anything provided by the listed eggs and their dependencies.
> 
> I guess this wouldn't work for Zope's packages in 
> ${SOFTWARE_HOME}/lib/python because they're not eggs known to buildout, 
> but I could add that to my path manually (and when all of Zope is eggs...)

     [foo]
     recipe=zc.recipe.egg
     eggs = egg1 egg2 ...
     interpreter = mypy
     extra-paths = path-to-your-instance/lib/python


>> You can also do:
>>
>>    bin/mypy somescript args
>>
>> and run the script somescript with the given arguments and it
>> will have the path set up for it.
>>
>> One wart is that any scripts defined by the eggs will be installed
>> too when you run the buildout, which you may or may not want. There's
>> a way to suppress this but I should probably add a dedicated interpreter
>> recipe that just creates an interpreter.
> 
> At least if it was optional to install the eggs' script, that'd be nice. 
> I guess it won't do much harm if the eggs install their scripts, though.

It is optional:

     [foo]
     recipe=zc.recipe.egg
     eggs = egg1 egg2 ...
     interpreter = mypy
     extra-paths = path-to-your-instance/lib/python
     scripts = mypy

But more work than I think it should be.

The scripts option allows you to select which scripts to include
or to rename them.

Jim

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