[Grok-dev] Towards Grok 0.14

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

May I suggest a tarball?

Eggbasket is cool and all, but I think a Grok release should include a
tarball. This could be just a buildout with built-in download cache
that can be setup by running "python bootstrap.py; bin/buildout -No"
(or, better yet, "python install.py"), and it should contain all
dependencies not present in the python standard library for grok AND
for grokproject.

This buildout tar should build grokproject in its ./bin, and this
grokproject should create buildouts based on the eggs already present
on the tarball and configuring "newest=false" in buildout.cfg, so that
downloading the tarball is the only operation needing network access
before you can try out grok.

Perhaps a tarball that creates a virtualenv instead of wrapping a
grok/grokproject buildout would be easier, or maybe some other python
package that creates tarballs out of buildouts, but the point is that
installing Grok should never be more complicated or error prone than,
to pick a completely random example out of my hat :-), Django[1].

Right now, even with eggbasket, we still need a number of things to be
"Just Right On The Internet" for Grok to "Just Work" for someone,
including a number of packages being on their right versions, as it
seems like even version pinning is not sufficient to keep us safe from
things that could break grokproject itself. I'd rather have the user
just download one package beyond python itself to be able to get up
and running with Grok.

Cheers, Leo

 [1] http://www.djangoproject.com/download/

  To save you guys a browser trip, the installation process is:

   * download and open tarball
   * run "python setup.py install"
   * use the installed scripts to create a new 'django package', which
won't need anything else to be downloaded before it can be run with
the built-in http server.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 20:36, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> The summer is over, I moved house, it's time to look at a Grok 0.14 release.
>
> [...]
> Any items that are in progress on the trunk right now and haven't been
> finished yet?
>
> Shall we set a release date for Grok 0.14 later this month/early october?
>
> This also ties into grokproject; recently I posted a list of issues with
> it and I hope we can release a new version of grokproject (and
> eggbasket, etc) that fixes some of these soon.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn