On 03/25/2011 03:24 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On 25/03/2011 16:49, Christian Theune wrote: >> the German speaking Zope Users Group (DZUG e.V.) organizes a series of 4 >> sprints this year to support feature development within the proximity of >> the ZTK and solve problems encountered by Zope, Plone and Python >> developers. >> > <snip> >> Topics >> ====== >> >> * Discussing how to deal with "private" releases > > FWIW, I've had no problems with this, here's a sample buildout.cfg: > > [buildout] > extensions = lovely.buildouthttp > find-links = https://example.com/password/protected/folder > > ...and just dump the .tgz sdists in that folder. > > Of course, if you don't need password protection such as when you have > your "egg server" on a private network, you just need the find-links. > > I'm not really sure why people have written a complicated array of "egg > servers" and the like when a simple http or file system served folder is > just fine ;-)
Could you elaborate on this? How does buildout/setuptools/distribut search for an sdist, lacking an index file? Does it look for .tgz only, or other extensions as well? This would save me a ton of heartburn if I could get it to work. Thanks. Eric. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
