Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-28 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: It's clearly the case that people who are reading this thread know how to avoid download.zope.org. The people who are not reading this thread just get tough luck from the Zope community when

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-28 Thread Chris Withers
Martijn Faassen wrote: It's clearly the case that people who are reading this thread know how to avoid download.zope.org. The people who are not reading this thread just get tough luck from the Zope community when their software doesn't work anymore. No, that's not quite what I said. I'm

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-20 Thread Martijn Faassen
Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] -1 to removing it. There is actually code out there that explicitly relies on versions of packages that can only be found in this place. Now of course that should be fixed, but even if it was

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Withers
Martijn Faassen wrote: If we released a version of Grok, say, back in the day that relied on an egg that's in that location, and someone built an application back in the day that relies on that version of Grok, and then they wrote a nice INSTALL.txt that said to the sysadmin how to install

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-20 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: If we released a version of Grok, say, back in the day that relied on an egg that's in that location, and someone built an application back in the day that relies on that version of Grok, and

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-19 Thread Martijn Faassen
Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Zagrodnick wrote: On 2008-11-12 23:41:55 +0100, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish distributions while we were learning about setuptools, eggs,

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-19 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: Christian Zagrodnick wrote: On 2008-11-12 23:41:55 +0100, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish distributions while we were learning

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Tres Seaver wrote: Anybody who really needs such an egg should be competent to rebuild it from SVN (since the revision ID or tag is implied by the name), and should certainly be willing to host that egg in a private index / location for their project: in fact, they should take this

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-19 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Tres Seaver wrote: Anybody who really needs such an egg should be competent to rebuild it from SVN (since the revision ID or tag is implied by the name), and should certainly be willing to host that egg in a

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-14 Thread Christian Zagrodnick
On 2008-11-12 23:41:55 +0100, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish distributions while we were learning about setuptools, eggs, and pypi. I think now, we're all using PyPI (or local repositories). I'd like to deprecate

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-14 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Zagrodnick wrote: On 2008-11-12 23:41:55 +0100, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish distributions while we were learning about setuptools, eggs, and pypi. I think

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-14 Thread Russ Ferriday
On 14 Nov 2008, at 16:40, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Zagrodnick wrote: On 2008-11-12 23:41:55 +0100, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish distributions while we were

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-13 Thread Christian Theune
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 17:41 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish distributions while we were learning about setuptools, eggs, and pypi. I think now, we're all using PyPI (or local repositories). I'd like to deprecate this site,

Re: [Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

2008-11-12 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Jim Fulton wrote: http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish distributions while we were learning about setuptools, eggs, and pypi. I think now, we're all using PyPI (or local repositories). I'd like to deprecate this site, making it read-only for now, but