On 23.08.2012 01:55, Olemis Lang wrote: > On 8/22/12, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 22.08.2012 19:32, Gary Martin wrote: >>> On 08/22/2012 05:36 PM, Olemis Lang wrote: >>>> - TracPermRedirect is not hosted in PyPI >>> Looks like it is there to me. >>> > Oops ! > I coudn't find it ... > :'( > > [...] >>>> IMO we should have a small package index (in ASF repository ?) in >>>> order to provide alternate download links (e.g. PyPI , Bitbucket , >>>> ...) to handle situations like this . >>> A local ASF cheeseshop might be interesting, although I don't know >>> whether it is something that would be difficult to argue for. >> Given the ASF policy for releasing source, not binary packages, it's not >> very likely to happen. > Hmmm ... It seems everything I said was not understood the way I > wanted to. So I'll try to explain myself better . I was talking about > creating somewhere (ASF repos, file attached to wiki, or somewhere > else) an index listing candidate files for downloading plugins. Just > that . Links would point to external website (e.g. t-h.o) just in a > way similar to requirements files including t-h.o URLs nowadays . The > benefit of using index file over requirements spec is mainly that it'd > be possible to state e.g. «try to download ThemeEngine from t-h.o > otherwise consider PyPI, else try unofficial Bitbucket repository, > ...» . The index limited to the plugins we need to run Bloodhound . In > order to do so , afaics we could track versions of those index files > in ASF repos , isn't it ?
Yes, that's OK. Sorry I misunderstood your intent. -- Brane -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
