[Grok-dev] remove the download tarball functionality from grokproject?

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Tue Mar 2 02:01:00 EST 2010


On 2010-3-1 23:17, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
>> Like Vincent reported, grokproject will download the big tarball
>> ("Eggbasket") even if (most of) the required eggs are already
>> available in your egg cache.
>>
>> It is also an extra step in the release process to actually create the
>> eggbasket and upload it.
>>
>> How would people feel if I were to remove this eggbasket downloading
>> from grokproject?
>
> I've been thinking about this.
>
> The reason we have the giant tarball is primarily reliability. We can
> host the tarball ourselves on grok.zope.org. If for someone reason some
> random website that hosts something we depends on is down, people can
> still install Grok. That's useful especially when people are installing
> Grok for the first time.

You could also host a simple index on grok.zope.org with just the 
necessary packages. BFG, Plone and Pylons do that as welll and it seems 
to work for them.

Wichert.

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