buildout eggs into python path

[Tim Diggins]

Is there an easy way these days to add buildout generated eggs ( a folder of unzipped eggs) to the python path for a project?

buildout generates a "py" executable which has all the paths in it, by pydev won't recognize it as a valid interpreter.

I've found a number of references online which are all pretty old, talking about buildout modifications, but wondered if there was direct support form pydev now.

[Fabio Zadrozny]

There's no real specific support in PyDev, but have you checked: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pb.recipes.pydev/ ? It seems like it does exactly what you want…

Cheers,

Fabio

[Tim Diggins]

I've now tried that - it was really hard to get working, so I edited the .pydevproject by hand.

However the generic requirement is to allow for a configuration of pythonpath that allows you to add not just individual eggs or source folders, but a folder of eggs and source folders (an unzipped egg seems to be identical to a source folder).

is that a possibility? (maybe you could make it only check the folder on demand? Or just "add all eggs and unzipped eggs in this folder")