[Community] primagis.buildout

[whit]

Kai Lautaportti wrote:
> Hi whit
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I haven't tried running the buildout in 
> workingenv myself but this is something we can and should definitely 
> look into.
>
> The initial reason for me to put together the buildout was to provide an 
> all-or-nothing solution for getting all the components installed. Now 
> that this seems to be working we can move onto making the buildout 
> support partial installation better where you can optionally use system 
> installed components as part of the installation.
>
> I'd be happy to hear from anyone on how to do this in the most 
> easy-to-use way and also which components of the buildout would most 
> likely need to support partial installation.
>
> whit wrote:
>   
>> howdy,
>> just some quick feedback.  tried running the prima.buildout in a 
>> workingenv python environment and ran into a couple things.
>>
>> * downloads and installs a new python.  is there a flag I can tick to 
>> avoid this?
>>     
>
> Currently there is no flag to do this. However, all the tasks that 
> depend on python simply assume that the interpreter is located under 
> $PREFIX/bin/python2.4. If you provide a symlink at the given location 
> pointing to your existing python interpreter and simply comment out the 
> python task in build.py, you might be able to use your own python. 
> Haven't really tested this though.
>
>   
easy enough to fix that.
>> * dies looking for PIL in the wrong place w/ a warning about strict targets.
>>     
>
> If you already have PIL somewhere where your own python interpreter is 
> able to find it, you can most likely just comment the PIL task out from 
> build.py or alternatively modify the "targets" parameter in the 
> "install" task within $BUILDOUT/tasks/pil.py to point to your existing 
> PIL installation which will then satisfy the strict target check.
>   
cool! will do!

-w

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