This package allow you to checkout some package and use them as developed eggs with zc.buildout.
develop-dir: a directory to checkout packages in
vcs-extend-develop: A list of vcs url. See pip‘s editable parameter. Available schemes are ssh, svn, git, hg, bzr, sftp.
vcs-update:
If true on every run buildout try updating egg. As example for hg+https run hg pull -u
If always then remove existing code from filesystem and get a fresh checkout
Use this package as a zc.buildout extension and provide some vcs urls in the vcs-extend-develop option:
>>> write('buildout.cfg','''
... [buildout]
... extensions=gp.vcsdevelop
... vcs-extend-develop=hg+https://gawel@bitbucket.org/gawel/mercurialapp/@tip#egg=MercurialApp
... parts=
... ''')
Then if you run buildout, the package will be checkout from the repository:
>>> print 'Start', system(buildout)
Start...
Cloning hg https://gawel@bitbucket.org/gawel/mercurialapp/ (to revision tip) to ./MercurialApp
Found command 'hg' at '...'
Develop: '/...buildout/MercurialApp'
Packages can be found in the develop-dir (default to .). You can override this:
>>> write('buildout.cfg','''
... [buildout]
... extensions=gp.vcsdevelop
... develop-dir=./src
... vcs-extend-develop=hg+https://gawel@bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/@tip#egg=pip
... parts=
... ''')
>>> print 'Start', system(buildout)
Start...
Cloning hg https://gawel@bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/ (to revision tip) to ./src/pip
Found command 'hg' at '...'
Develop: '/...buildout/./src/pip'
...
You can also checkout non-python packages but you’ll get a warning:
>>> write('buildout.cfg','''
... [buildout]
... extensions=gp.vcsdevelop
... develop-dir=./src
... vcs-extend-develop=git+git://github.com/benoitc/couchbeam.git#egg=couchbeam
... parts=
... ''')
>>> print 'Start', system(buildout).strip()
Start...
Cloning git://github.com/benoitc/couchbeam.git to ./src/couchbeam
Found command 'git' at '...'
Warning: ./src/couchbeam is not a python package