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

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> 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...

I wasn't literally referring to a "transaction", in the ZODB sense -- I
meant, "install using a separate run of easy_install'.


Tres.
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