[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.viewlet breaking buildout?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 16 Apr 2007, at 22:51 , Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>
>> Dave, please don't reply to other threads. Thread association  
>> doesn't usually happen by Subject line but by mail headers...
>>
>> David Pratt wrote:
>>> Hi. I have already managed to repackage a couple of apps using  
>>> eggs only zope (zc.zope3recipes on svn.zope.org). Yesterday, I  
>>> began creating another eggs-only application as a test however  
>>> this app requires z3c.viewlet. The z3c.viewlet package has a  
>>> dependency upon zope.viewlet. When running the buildout stopped  
>>> during the zope egg installation. I deleted the zope.viewlet egg  
>>> and reran the buildout and it stopped at the same point. Hoping  
>>> someone can advise if this a possible problem with zope.viewlet  
>>> or how I might debug this a bit more to complete the buildout.  
>>> Many thanks.
>>> Regards,
>>> David
>>> The error in the buildout is as follows:
>>> buildout: Installing testapp
>>> zc.buildout.easy_install: Getting new distribution for zope.viewlet
>>> zc.buildout.easy_install: Got zope.viewlet 3.4dev-r73833
>>> Couldn't find index page for 'PILwoTk' (maybe misspelled?)
>>> zc.buildout.easy_install: Getting new distribution for PILwoTk
>>> While:
>>>   Installing testapp
>>>   Getting distribution for PILwoTk
>>> Error: Couldn't find a distribution for PILwoTk.
>>
>> zope.viewlet doesn't depend on PILwoTk. The above output from  
>> buildout doesn't even say that it is (it was getting a *new*  
>> distribution for zope.viewlet accidentally at the same time, it  
>> seems). A google search for PILwoTk only turned up references to  
>> z3c.image [1].
>>
>> [1] http://svn.zope.org/z3c.image/trunk/setup.py? 
>> rev=73464&sortby=log&view=diff&r1=73464&r2=73463&p1=z3c.image/ 
>> trunk/setup.py&p2=/z3c.image/trunk/setup.py
>
> Buildout needs to provide more help in this situation.
>
> PILwoTk is a special distribution of PIL that I created that  
> installs with setuptools (easy_install or buildout) and doesn't  
> require Tk. :)
>
> I'd be happy to make it more widely available.  AFAIK, there isn't  
> any other distribution of PIL that installs cleanly with setuptools.

I think that would be widely appreciated, especially by the Plone  
folks who are distributing Plone 3.0 also as eggs.