Packages in a subdirectory of a repository

[wichert]

I have a couple of packages that are located in a subdirectory of a repository. This makes it impossible to use them with mr.developer. To support this I suggest adding a source_path option, to be used like this:

[sources]
my.package = git [email protected]:path/repo.git source_path=python/my.package
other.package = git [email protected]:path/otherrepo.git source_path=python/other.package

[fschulze]

Isn't the "path" option described under "Common options" in the readme what you need? It would look like this:
[sources]
my.package = git [email protected]:path/repo.git path=python
other.package = git [email protected]:path/repo.git path=python

Though I would suggest to use an absolute path with path=${buildout:directory}/python

[wichert]

The documentation says path is specifies where to make a checkout/clone. What I need is to specify the path inside the repository which is used by buildout to find package sources.

[fschulze]

Ah, you have several packages in the same repo, I misunderstood that. Try this:
[sources]
repo = git [email protected]:path/repo.git egg=false
my.package = fs my.package path=${buildout:directory}/src/repo
other.package = fs other.package path=${buildout:directory}/src/repo

Supporting it directly would be pretty complicated. If you would specify different branches, but the same repository we wouldn't be able to share the repo and would need multiple checkouts etc. Actually if that's fine, then being able to specify the package root would be useful for some repositories.

[wichert]

Not quite: I have a single package in the repository, but it is not located at the root of the repository. The directory structure looks a bit like this:

- Makefile
- README.md
- app/setup.py
- app/src/...
- Prototype/...
- <other folders>

When checking this out buildout needs to be pointed to src/<repo name>/app. Based on your comment I gather this is the workaround:

[sources]
repo = git [email protected]:path/repo.git egg=false
my.package = fs my.package path=${buildout:directory}/src/repo/app

which is not as simple or intuitive as the source_path option I suggested.

[fschulze]

I think a better name for that would be package_root and I agree that it is useful. But it would be for one package per checkout:
[sources]
other.package = git [email protected]:path/repo.git package_root=app

[wichert]

One package per checkout is all I need :)

[fschulze]

Or actually just root:
[sources]
other.package = git [email protected]:path/repo.git root=app

[mizi]

I noticed that the solution provided by fschulze fails the first time you run buildout with the following message:

INFO: Queued 'repo' for checkout.
ERROR: Directory for package 'my.package' doesn't exist.
INFO: Cloned 'repo' with git.
ERROR: There have been errors, see messages above.

An ugly solution to this problem is to run develop checkout repo before running buildout.