gf.recipe.bzr 1.0rc3

Goals

• Allow fetching eggs directly from bzr repositories.

• The specified repositories are branched locally on the first buildout run. It is possible to use these local branches for development and make local changes. The local changes can be committed locally, and can be pushed back to the remote repository or to any other location.

• When buildout is run again, the branches are updated (pulled) automatically from the remote location. If pulling causes conflicts, buildout continues gracefully, but it gives an error message to notify the user about the problem. The parent branch (pull) location remembered by bazaar will be used for pulling, so it is possible to change this any time from bzr, and the recipe will use the new location from that point on.

• Local changes can be pushed back manually to the remote branches. This is not enforced and is in the responsibility of the user. The recipe does not do any checks at uninstall time, neither does it remove the local branches. Please note however that your changes will not propagate upstream, unless you do the necessary push.

• Parameters are similar to those used with “infrae.subversion” and also compatible with the “bazaarrecipe” package.

• With bzr-svn, the remote branch can also be an svn branch. So it actually can be used to branch off native svn repository branches as well (although, performance of updates will depend on bzr-svn’s performance, thus infrae.subversion may provide faster operation for svn.)

Compatibility changes

The default recipe is now doing a relaxed repository checkup, compared to the recent versions. This is described in the goals. Important changes from recent versions:

• On update, if “pull” is unsuccesful, the recipe will give an error with the bzr command output, but it will not cause buildout to stop with an error. The developer needs to look at this output to realize that the update has not taken place.

• There is no uninstall any more. The developer is no more enforced to commit and push her changes. Note that the branch will never be removed, thus the developer won’t loose local changes in any way, unless she willingly deletes the branch.

The old behaviour is still available, in the “strict” recipe:

[bzr]
recipe = gf.recipe.bzr#strict
...

If you find problems using the recipe after an upgrade, please try to use the “strict” recipe.

Usage

Usage example:

[bzr]
recipe = gf.recipe.bzr
urls =
    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kissbooth/kss.plugin.sdnd/trunk kss.plugin.sdnd
    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kissbooth/kss.plugin.livesearch/trunk kss.plugin.livesearch
in_parts = False
http_authentication = username:password

This will bzr get the branches to bzr/kss.plugin.sdnd and bzr/kss.plugin.livesearch. Branches are pulled if buildout is called.

No directories are really removed on uninstall, this has the consequence that if the buildout configuration is changed, the local repositories will not follow the new pull location, but instead will continue using the pull location known by bzr.

[kukit.js]
recipe = gf.recipe.bzr
urls=
    https://codespeak.net/svn/kukit/kukit.js/trunk              trunk
    https://codespeak.net/svn/kukit/kukit.js/branch/1.2         1.2
    https://codespeak.net/svn/kukit/kukit.js/branch/1.4         1.4
develop = False

[kss.demo]
recipe = gf.recipe.bzr
urls=
    https://codespeak.net/svn/kukit/kss.demo/trunk              trunk
    https://codespeak.net/svn/kukit/kss.demo/branch/1.2         1.2
    https://codespeak.net/svn/kukit/kss.demo/branch/1.4         1.4
develop = False

Other configuration needed

In addition you also need to include the eggs you configured with the recipe, in the buildout section:

[buildout]
...
eggs =
    ...
    kss.plugin.sdnd
    kss.plugin.livesearch