Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread John Cowan
Felix scripsit: I like the idea of tgz-submission (did John suggest it? I can't remember, it's already 60 seconds later). How about a central store that accepts tgz's and external clients, that keep their own infrastructure (and DVCS's), who regularly pull repos from the actual contributors

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:12 PM, John Gabriele wrote: 2. *Documentation*. Python's [Cheeseshop](http://cheeseshop.python.org) has a neat feature where, if your project has html documentation, you can (manually) upload it directly to http://packages.python.org/project-name . This way,

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:55 AM, John Gabriele wrote: My point was that, if you tell prospective egg contributors that they can optionally supply their own html docs, they can use whatever tools they want to generate that html (even write it by-hand, if they like). [...] you could offer them the

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread Peter Bex
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:19:20AM -0400, John Cowan wrote: Felix scripsit: I like the idea of tgz-submission (did John suggest it? I can't remember, it's already 60 seconds later). How about a central store that accepts tgz's and external clients, that keep their own infrastructure

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi John, On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:12:06 -0400 John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote: 1. *Lower Barriers to Entry*. My guess is that the absolute easiest way for potential contributors to contribute a package is to simply ask them to upload a tar.gz archive of their project. Supply them with a

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread Felix
From: John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:19:20 -0400 Felix scripsit: I like the idea of tgz-submission (did John suggest it? I can't remember, it's already 60 seconds later). How about a central store that

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread Christian Kellermann
* John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org [110315 00:45]: Christian Kellermann scripsit: - Automatically *mirror* the contributed archives on call-cc.org, maybe after the code has passed N salmonella rounds of master and experimental branches. What is an archive in this context? Is this

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

2011-03-15 Thread John Gabriele
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Jim Ursetto zbignie...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:12 PM, John Gabriele wrote: 2. *Documentation*. Python's [Cheeseshop](http://cheeseshop.python.org) has a neat feature where, if your project has html documentation, you can (manually) upload it