Setuptools and subversion 1.5
Setuptools doesn’t seem to like subversion 1.5.
Earlier this week I ran into problems with setuptools on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron system, which uses subversion 1.5. Luckily I wasn’t the first as proven by several other reports.
To be able to develop Plone products properly I had to do two things:
- Globally install this patched version.
- Make sure buildout uses a patched version of setuptools.
The first part was the easiest: following the instructions (original link not working anymore) I was finished in no time. This prevents the scrambled eggs reported by Maurits.
The second task was a bit more labour intensive (albeit just
slightly). First I had to unpin the version of setuptools in the
buildout configuration. However, since there is no egg available on
PyPI at the moment with a fix,
buildout still uses an unpatched version. But I didn’t like the idea
of inserting a find-link in the buildout configuration. The simple
solution was to download an egg which contained a fix and put it in my
eggs directory. (On a sidenote: I use a single egg directory for all
my Plone instances on my development machine. This makes this solution
viable.)
I’m not completely happy with the current situation, but at least I can continue working. Let’s hope a fixed version of setuptools will be released soon…