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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2010, at 03:57 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> 
>> The other day, I tried to make a lazr package. I downloaded
>> lazr.yourpkg from Launchpad, branched it to my own package
>> (lazr.importguardian), and then tried to run 'prepare.py'.
>> 
>> I ran 'python bootstrap.py' and then './bin/buildout', but after
>> downloading lots of things, it now gives me this error message:
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/357350/
> 
> That looks to me like prepare.py didn't update setup.py.  It should have
> turned import lazr.yourpkg into lazr.importguardian.
> 
>> https://dev.launchpad.net/HackingLazrLibraries suggests that maybe I
>> need to use virtualenv or a non-system Python, and that work is being
>> done to remove this limitation. If this is the case, then how would I
>> use virtualenv,

Install virtualenv (using apt).  Type ``virtualenv --no-site-packages [name of directory]``.  Use the python executable in [name of directory]/bin to run bootstrap, as described in the HackingLazrLibraries page.

>> and is there a bug I can follow on the work being done
>> to make normal Python development possible?
> 
> I'm wondering if this is a reference to the namespace package work that Gary
> did?

Barry is mostly right.  It's a reference to my zc.buildout branches that we've been using in Launchpad.  A version of them needs to be landed in zc.buildout, which was waiting on Jim Fulton to review them, but is now waiting on me to finish a new approach.  I do not have a bug specifically for this branch, but it is in relation to https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/491705 .  The branch is in Zope's subversion at 
svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/branches/gary-4 .  I hope to have the work completed this week, but I do not know when Jim will be available to review it.

Gary