[Zope-dev] Re: why external version indexes don't fulfill all use cases for development

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
>> If I specify index as above, how do I get other packages which may not 
>> appear in that index?
> 
> You install them in a separate transaction:  the 'index_url' setting in
> a pacakge setup.py only governs where setuptools goes to find packages
> which are dependencies of that package.

Is this a buildout thing?

I've never known of transactions in anything to do with setuptools...

Chris

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