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| author | Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> | 2013-08-07 06:57:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> | 2013-08-07 06:57:36 -0400 |
| commit | 244412f118232255578bb99afee7cd22872a9839 (patch) | |
| tree | 8401bd3c125d35b81a6556d0ef82c94bd561a0e9 | |
| parent | b748722cdd854504dea3209b722ee868302d8541 (diff) | |
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Removed section on Managing Multiple Projects. It only works for Subversion, which is substantially replaced by other SCM systems.
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diff --git a/docs/setuptools.txt b/docs/setuptools.txt index b46e5939..235a85b5 100644 --- a/docs/setuptools.txt +++ b/docs/setuptools.txt @@ -1267,45 +1267,6 @@ Creating System Packages resolve the issue. - -Managing Multiple Projects --------------------------- - -If you're managing several projects that need to use ``ez_setup``, and you -are using Subversion as your revision control system, you can use the -"svn:externals" property to share a single copy of ``ez_setup`` between -projects, so that it will always be up-to-date whenever you check out or update -an individual project, without having to manually update each project to use -a new version. - -However, because Subversion only supports using directories as externals, you -have to turn ``ez_setup.py`` into ``ez_setup/__init__.py`` in order -to do this, then create "externals" definitions that map the ``ez_setup`` -directory into each project. Also, if any of your projects use -``find_packages()`` on their setup directory, you will need to exclude the -resulting ``ez_setup`` package, to keep it from being included in your -distributions, e.g.:: - - setup( - ... - packages = find_packages(exclude=['ez_setup']), - ) - -Of course, the ``ez_setup`` package will still be included in your -packages' source distributions, as it needs to be. - -For your convenience, you may use the following external definition, which will -track the latest version of setuptools:: - - ez_setup svn://svn.eby-sarna.com/svnroot/ez_setup - -You can set this by executing this command in your project directory:: - - svn propedit svn:externals . - -And then adding the line shown above to the file that comes up for editing. - - Setting the ``zip_safe`` flag ----------------------------- |