>> I'm not sure exactly what the purpose or mechanism for /external is. Sure, >> it's like a snapshot dir, probably used for to pull some stuff into other >> process? Seems to me like it might be interesting to, for example, convert >> to a simple config file + script that lets you specify a package >> (repository) + tag, which can then be easily pulled in. >> >> But it'd be nice to know where and how exactly this is used. > > Basically it contains released versions of packages that some parts of > Python depend on. For example, Sphinx dependencies to build the docs > reside their. A simple script that downloads a tarball and extracts it > seems more elegant.
Such a script would, in particular, also have to work on the Windows buildbot slaves. /external is primarily used for the Window build. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
