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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Christophe Combelles wrote:
> Martijn Faassen a écrit :
>> (...)
> 
> 
> I think the term 'develop' is badly chosen. You are right if you argue 
> while having the meaning of 'develop' in mind. You are explaining what 
> you think a 'develop' option should be. A 'develop' option means: "I 
> want to 'develop' on this package, so I want it active, otherwise I 
> don't put 'develop'".
> 
> But probably the feature has been created before the name 'develop' was 
> chosen, and it should have an other name ('egg_path'? 'local_egg'?).
> However something has to be done because some people find it not 
> logical, some other people will probably have headaches with it.

I think Jim chose to name this option simply 'develop' because for each 
directory specified in it, it will call 'python setup.py develop'.