Comment 13 for bug 158756

On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:03 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:

> Are there any news on this?

No.

> Just ran into the problem again as I somehow ended up with a
> setuptools
> .egg-lnk in develop-eggs. python bootstrap.py did not pick that one up
> and therefore no site-packages was listed in bin/buildout. However,
> the
> buildout.cfg referenced develop-eggs, found setuptools and listed
> site-
> packages in ./bin/instance and many more.
>
> The solution seems to be very easy: don't search setuptools
> anywhere, just get it, put it in eggs/ and use it.
> Or does anybody see problems with that procedure?o
>
> Interestingly, the problem also persists when using ./bin/python from
> virtualenv --no-site-packages . run inside the buildout directory.

As I've mentioned before, the location os setuptools has nothing to do
with whether site-packages is used. site-packages is always used. I
plan to add an option to exclude site-packages. I haven't done this
yet. I have higher priorities. Reviewed checkins are accepted.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation