A couple of months ago I wrote a small zc.buildout-recipe to allow the integration of data from some git repository into your workspace. Now I needed mostly the same functionality but for a Mercurial repository. Luckily, Tim Molendijk created a small recipe just for that available in the PyPI. Since the README isn’t really included there, you probably also want to take a look at the project’s repository on Bitbucket.
To use it, simply configure a part like this::
[django.piston]
recipe = mercurialrecipe
repository = http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/
As with my git-recipe it supports the newest option (globally and locally)
to prevent the repository from getting pulled every time you update the
environment and it sets the location-part-variable so that you can access
the data you just pulled.
Really nice stuff. Thanks Tim.
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