[Zope3-dev] Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
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> buildout setup? I've never seen that. I can't find any  
> documentation on it in zc.buildout.

Grrrr. Sure enough, the documentation doesn't mention it.  That's an  
annoying documentation bug,  I'm pretty sure it was documented at one  
time. Also, some examples in the documentation use it.


> How does it work?

bin/buildout setup <somedir_or_setup_script> setup arguments ...



> Does it call setup.py for every development egg in buildout.cfg?

No.

> Why not just call python setup.py?

Because:

- The setup you are invoking uses setuptools and you are using a  
clean Python, or

- The the setup.py you're using doesn't use setuptools but you want  
to use setuptools commands.

Basically, the setup command is a convenience that gets setuptools  
into the path and imported before invoking the given setup.  I find  
this quite useful.  One annoyance is that, although there are  
workarounds, it generally wants there to be a buildout.cfg file  
around and I often want to use it to run a setup.py that has nothing  
to do with a buildout.

Jim



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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation