Buildout: the biggest problems have the simplest answers…
..and how true that is. Today’s time consumer is directly related to just 1 misplaced line of a buildout configuration (and presumably something that’s changed somewhere else).
The result
After much hunting and hunting, it turns out my Zope2 Fake Eggs weren’t being generated.
On my long quest I had to go through downloading new packages and trying to find something that had changed and even trying to establish new virtual environments on different VMs. Nothing would fix the problem. To rub salt in the wound, my desktop Ubuntu ran the buildout fine, so methinks the underlying …