Picklebytes » Maven http://shane.willowrise.com Tech Notes from Shane Hathaway Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Easy Workaround for zc.buildout http://shane.willowrise.com/archives/easy-workaround-for-zcbuildout/ http://shane.willowrise.com/archives/easy-workaround-for-zcbuildout/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:05:19 +0000 Shane Hathaway http://shane.willowrise.com/?p=76 Problem: running “python bootstrap.py” or “bin/buildout” often produces scripts that mix up the Python package search path due to some packages being installed system-wide.  Version conflicts result.

Workaround: use “python -S bootstrap.py” and “python -S bin/buildout”.  Magically, no more version conflicts.

I wish I had thought of that before.  Duh!

Update: Another tip for new zc.buildout users I’ve been meaning to mention is that you should create a preferences file in your home directory so that downloads and eggs are cached centrally.  This makes zc.buildout much friendlier.  Do this:

mkdir ~/.buildout
echo "[buildout]" >> ~/.buildout/default.cfg
echo "eggs-directory = $HOME/.buildout/eggs" >> ~/.buildout/default.cfg
echo "download-cache = $HOME/.buildout/cache" >> ~/.buildout/default.cfg

It seems a bit silly that zc.buildout doesn’t have these settings by default.  They make zc.buildout behave a lot like Apache Maven, which is what a lot of Java shops are using these days.  Both zc.buildout and Maven are great tools once you get to know them, but both are a real pain to understand at first.

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