[Product-Developers] Re: buildout.cfg within a package

[Alexander Limi]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:44:07 -0700, Rob Miller  
<ra at burningman.com> wrote:

> i've seen something different but eerily similar in another situation.   
> i commonly have zope instances running in a directory named "zope"  
> inside a virtualenv.  if i run './zope/bin/zopectl test  
> -sProducts.SomeProduct' then it doesn't work, i see error messages with  
> duplicated paths, similar to what you've seen.  it works, however, if i  
> 'cd zope' first, and simply call './bin/zopectl tests  
> -sProducts.SomeProduct'
>
> i just tried it with your buildout, and sure enough it works if i cd  
> into the bin directory and run './instance debug'.

There's lots of variations of this bug; if you do cd bin; buildout — it  
doesn't work, but if you do bin/buildout, it does. Quite confusing for our  
newbies, although it's understandable that it works the way it does from  
an implementation standpoint.

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