Diez B. Roggisch schrieb:
> On Sunday 23 August 2009 13:24:07 Christopher Arndt wrote:
>> Jorge Vargas schrieb:
>>> so I'll like to revise the decision. Back then the "pro index" arguments
>>> where - unreleased packages
>>> - maintaining a "well known set"
>>> - pypi's instability
>>>
>>> Are those still valid?
>>>
>>> What is everyone's opinion on this? and more importantly are the ones
>>> in favor of the index up for the task of maintaining it?
>> I think you are missing the most important argument. Often third-party
>> package authors do not provide binary packages for all systems when they
>> put a new release on pypi. This then will break the tg installation for
>> people who do not have compilers and/or appropriate dev packages
>> installed. Though I'm not sure if tg2 still has dependencies on binary
>> packages, please correct me, if my point is irrelevant.
>>
>> I think the point of the index is NOT to always provide the latest
>> release of all dependency packages but a set of dependencies that is
>> known to work with the specific tg release. People you know how to use
>> easy_install can always use pypi to upgrade their dependencies
>> selectively if they want,.
> 
> I wanted to talk to ChrisA about this anyway - we do have our local modified 
> EggBasket + the EasterBunny versionset collector.
> 
> This makes creating/maintaining such an index-page a no-brainer.
> 
> So if chris is ok with this being put on bitbucket (instead in his own 
> repository where he has to administer access and stuff), we are happy to 
> share that. 

Sorry, somehow I missed this mail. It got filed in a folder which wasn't
monitored for new mails.

The code for EggBasket has an MIT license, so you are free to do with it
whatever you want, I haven't done any updates to it recently, so I don't
claim any maintainer rights.

Let me know, if I can help out with anything.


Chris

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