Hi Iain, On Dec 1, 2006, at 2:14 AM, iain duncan wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, it is currently impossible to install from the > turbogears site without hacking of setup scripts beyond my ken. > > I would say this is a serious issue, as it seems there is no backup > install plan beyond the main download page. tg-setup is not > working, and This message would be a lot more useful if you stated the problem that you're having with tgsetup (a traceback, perhaps?) > the download instructions mention the possibility of downloading files > individually, with a link back to the same page that has ... tg- > setup. I > can't find these other files.I can get an older egg by changing the > beta > number, but have no idea how to do anything with only the egg or > how to > tell tg-setup to use that egg. The files are still there if you view source. I just changed the page so that they're visible again. > This is, IMHO, a bad problem for Gears adoption. Nobody can tell when > they will have to deploy in a hurry, and certainly it will turn people > right off from the framework if they are stuck with no viable way of > downloading other past versions of other mirrors. Should there perhaps > not be a sourceforge page with a wack of options including every old > version available for easy download? If there exists a list of mirrors > to previous releases, it's not mentioned on the main site in the > download section. I'd like to see tgsetup sprout an option to choose TG versions. > I realize this is "beta" software and you get the risks with the > rewards, but IMHO the situation right now is crazy. It should never be > impossible to revert to an older known working version, and for > software > intended for "rapid development" I think contingency plans are > necessary. > > Sorry for the rant. I really like the way gears works. But I'm having > very bad deployment experiences right now which are making me > wonder if > this is viable for a business option. I'm somewhat floored with how > problematic it has been getting gears code that was working fine on > one > machine to work on another. :/ That's a problem I've never had. I develop on a Mac and deploy on Linux and haven't had any issues with deployment being different from development. I hope we can get your issues fixed up quickly. You can still resort to easy_install TurboGears==1.0b1 if you need to. Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
