Added developer hints

9a6990a7 · Reinout van Rees · 4bd32578 · 9a6990a7
Commit 9a6990a7 authored Sep 02, 2009 by Reinout van Rees
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+Developing buildout itself
+**************************
+
+When you're developing buildout itself, you need to know two things:
+
+- Use a clean python *without* setuptools installed.  Otherwise many tests
+  will find your already-installed setuptools, leading to test differences
+  when setuptools' presence is explicitly tested.
+
+- Don't bootstrap with ``python bootstrap/bootstrap.py`` but with ``python
+  dev.py``.