After running paster, I have a few eggs in my product

Question

I just ran

bin/paster create -t dexterity my.example

After running it, I have the following:

 bootstrap.py
 docs
 my.example.egg-info
 PasteDeploy-1.5.0-py2.6.egg
 plone.cfg
 setup.cfg
 buildout.cfg
 my
 Paste-1.7.5.1-py2.6.egg
 PasteScript-1.7.5-py2.6.egg
 README.txt
 setup.py

Why do I also have 3 eggs? Is my buildout configured wrong?

I had just installed Plone4 with the unified installer and when I tried running the pater command I got this error:

 AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'NoDefault'

That's when I appended the [paster] portion to my buildout as shown here. Initially, my buildout only had the [zopskel] portion without the [paster] portion.

Answer 1

This is entirely normal, if somewhat irritating. Your setup.py file pulls these in with the setup_requires and paster_plugins sections:

setup(...
    setup_requires=["PasteScript"],
    paster_plugins=["ZopeSkel"],
    ...
)

The ZopeSkel paster recipes use these eggs to let you add snippets to your generated egg at a later date. Remove the above two entries and the eggs if you do not need this feature.