[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:
>>> 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'.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, that seems... sub-optimal.
> 
> So I have to do easy_install package x, edit a config file, then 
> easy_install package y, rinse and repeat?!

No, you override the index on the command line:

 $ bin/easy_install --index_url=<index for package x> x
 $ bin/easy_install --index_url=<index for package y> y


Tres.
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