On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> - Do nothing. And just document the somewhat weird semantics >> of the name. > > Leaving this ambiguity in offline longer would be unfortunate IMHO
It is, but some recipes check this option. I'm just not up for changing this now. >> - Add a new option: install, such that install=false has the same >> meaning as offline=true. >> Deprecate the offline option and accompanying command-line option. > > That would be the preferred approach IMHO > Do you want a patch? No. I decided to use the other option. I now error if install-from-cache is used with offline, and I've improved the error message when requirements aren't satisfied in offline mode (for buildout 2). Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
