Re: How does buildout determine paths needed? (for django-page-cms)

Bill Freeman wrote:
> Not buildout specific, but, if I recall correctly, the pages egg
> (among others) is not
> built in such a way that the media files get included (in setup.py the
> function that
> goes and discovers the .py files to install only does .py files, other
> files must be
> added more painfully, and a lot of package maintainers don't do it, and may not
> know, because they typically do a VCS checkout or install from a tar,
> rather than
> from the egg). Last time I installed pages, after using pip install,
> I had to get the
> tar and unpack it to get the media files. I don't recall if that
> involved templates, or
> just css, images, and js, but I wouldn't be surprised. The pages templates are
> examples, IIRC, and you make your own to stick in
> project_root/templates/pages/ .

Hmmm.... the developer of django-page-cms does not use buildout, so I tried
a buildout with django-page-cms as source and it behaved differently.
I still needed project_root/media/ and subdirs, but it started finding
templates.

Thanks for the hints.

John

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