[Zope-dev] buildout 'versions' and 'develop' conflict

[Jim Fulton]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Christophe Combelles wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that the 'versions' information in a buildout has a  
> priority over 'develop'?

Yup

> What I wanted is to use the exact versions of the KGS:
> extends = http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/versions.cfg
> versions = versions
>
> Then for a particular egg (say, z3c.menu), use a develop-egg instead:
> develop = . z3c.menu
>
> However the develop-egg is never used, because of the version  
> information.
>
> Shouldn't the 'develop' directive have a priority?

Martijn Faassen thinks so:

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/164043

Despite my response to him, I'm not entirely sure.  I'm curious what  
other people think,

> Or is there another way to to what I want?


As you found out, you can simply override the version in your buildout/

Jim

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Jim Fulton
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