On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Eric V. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/17/2014 6:13 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Eric V. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In older versions of bootstrap.py, the --setup-source option would let >>> me select an alternate source of ez_setup.py. I just downloaded a new >>> version today from http://downloads.buildout.org/2/bootstrap.py, and I >>> notice this option is gone. bootstrap always will download ez_setup from >>> http://downloads.buildout.org/2/bootstrap.py (assuming setuptools isn't >>> installed, which in my case it is not). >>> >>> I run buildout on machines that have access to my own internal http >>> servers, but do not have internet access. The requirement for internet >>> access breaks this setup. >>> >>> Is there some reason --setup-source was removed? >> >> I didn't know people needed it and was trying to reduce the complexity >> of the bootstrap source. We can add it back, > > While working up a patch for this,
Thanks! > I realize that I'll also need to add > back --download-base to pass to ez_setup.use_setuptools. Yup. Feel free to propose something simpler. > Is the best way to do this to open an issue on > https://github.com/buildout/buildout, and create a fork with my proposed > changes? Yes. > I'm not sure of the normal buildout workflow. It's pretty standard open source workflow based on pull requests. For a non-trivial change, you'd need to sign a Zope contributor agreement, but I'd be happy to consider this trivial. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
