Support .py#egg=project-version in find-links
Bug #285121 reported by
Erik Swanson
This bug affects 1 person
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Buildout |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Buildout should support setuptools' auto-packaging of single-.py dependencies in find-links, and from dependency_links. This is triggered by appending a "#egg=project-
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Currently, when I attempt to have buildout install a package with a .py#egg= dependency, buildout attempts and fails to locate a setup.py. For the moment I'm working around this by hosting my own eggs (auto-generated by easy_install -zmaxd.) of this dependency, but would rather not have to do this.
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This one's biting me too.
It seems that the files are downloaded correctly, and the stub setup.py is created properly in the download cache dir, but it's using the path of the file as the package directory, and thus failing.
Maybe it should create a directory to store the stub package, and point to that?