[Zope-dev] Re: zc.recipe.egg and 'install' instead of 'develop'?

Ross Patterson me at rpatterson.net
Wed Oct 31 17:43:14 EDT 2007


Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> writes:

> On Oct 31, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
>
>> On 10/31/07, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 31, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a recipe that will 'install' a distutils package from
>>>> source
>>>> instead of doing 'develop'? Couldn't find it. :(
>>>
>>> custom
>>
>> Erm, can you be more specific? The only two options in zc.recipe.egg
>> seem to be 'develop' and 'custom', none of which will run a 'setup.py
>> install' from a checkout.
>
> What do ya mean. I said custom. Geez. ;)
>
> I thought when you said "source", you meant a source release.
>
> I don't think zc.recipe.egg has an option to install an egg from a
> source tree.  I can't think of a recipe off hand that does that.

Jim pointed out how it may be an abuse of buildout, but my
z3c.recipe.egg recipe supports running arbitrary setup.py commands on
source distributions.

Ross



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