[Checkins] Re: SVN: lovely.memcached/trunk/buildout.cfg added explicit path to `python-memcached` to enable its installation.

[Tom Lazar]

On 30.07.2007, at 19:30, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Whatever it is you're tryinig to do, hard-wiring a path to a  
> tarball of a *specific version* is always a bad idea. Not to  
> mention that this path is already obsolete, the tarball has been  
> moved to the old-releases subdir.

ok, got it. makes sense, too... ;)

>
> find-links is not supposed to contain paths to tarballs, it's  
> suppose to provide setuptools with a hint of where to find more  
> links to eggs which it can then evaluate. Don't try to outsmart it.
>
>>> probably this should be fixed in the cheeseshop download url?
>> sorry, i'm not sure what you mean by this...
>
> If easy_install python-memcached doesn't work, then its CheeseShop  
> page (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/memcached/) might not link  
> to the right download URL. But as far as I can see, it does, making  
> your patch even more obsucre.

ah, ok, now i understand. at the time (at the PIKtipi sprint)  
easy_install of python-memcached did *not* work, which was the whole  
reason for me to make the change...

>>> did you file a bug upstream?
>> no, wouldn't know why.
>
> Because at first it seems like you were trying to fix a problem in  
> the package's metadata by pointing zc.buildout to the download  
> location explicitly. A problem in a package's metadata is a bug,  
> hence the suggested bug report.
>
> Perhaps you could explain the rationale behind your patch?

well, basically, i just used a pedestrian approach of trial&error  
which would let me install lovely.memcached as an egg in order to  
incorporate it as a simple dependency in the project i was trying it  
out with. i briefly discussed it with Bernd Dorn before committing  
it, but apparently too briefly...

at any rate, i've reversed my changes and i'm sorry for the  
inconvenience they may have caused.

cheers,

tom

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