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

[Christophe Combelles]

Jim Fulton a écrit :
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> On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Christophe Combelles wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that the 'versions' information in a buildout has a priority 
>> over 'develop'?
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> Yup
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>> What I wanted is to use the exact versions of the KGS:
>> extends = http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/versions.cfg
>> versions = versions
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>> 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?
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> Martijn Faassen thinks so:
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>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/164043
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> Despite my response to him, I'm not entirely sure.  I'm curious what 
> other people think,
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>> Or is there another way to to what I want?
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> 
> As you found out, you can simply override the version in your buildout/

I don't have enough experience with all the use cases of buildout and the 
develop-eggs, but at a first glance, I find it more logical to give priority to 
'develop':
'develop' is supposed to point to a real path containing a setup.py, so when 
defining a develop-egg, you clearly indicate that you want *that* path, 
whathever version this develop-egg defines.

Christophe

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> Jim Fulton
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