Posts tagged 'config'

Buildout: order of ‘extends’ configuration files

Yet another word to the wise: take care of your ordering of the ‘extends’ configuration files within your buildout.  It makes complete sense, and especially so with respect to version pinning: the later configuration’s versions will be the last one applied.

So, it makes a lot of sense (in hindsight!) that this configuration, and the fact I have version pins in my base.cfg, isn’t going to end well:

[buildout]
extends =
    base.cfg
    http://good-py.appspot.com/release/dexterity/1.0b2

The Dexterity version pins are going to override the ones I have in my base.cfg.  This …