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Re: Fix your testtools, and a warning to never modify files in the download-cache

 

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> testtools may or may not be hosed in developer installations--that is, you might have a version of testtools that is not what the Launchpad tree actually expects.  If you ``rm -rf eggs/testtools-0.9.8_r128-py2.6.egg`` and re-run bin/buildout you should be ok.
>
> As a reminder, please *never* modify files in the download cache, only add them.  Otherwise developers will not get your updated code.
>

Sorry about the hassle. I had forgotten completely about this restriction.

jml



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