On Friday 09 November 2007, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > Those are exactly the problems with the locked down index: > > * You can always use *more* packages but you'll have to lock them down > yourself, can't use another KGS for those
But this is a limitation of setuptools. I think this could be solved using find-links for now. > * You cannot say "I know the KGS prefers zope.frobnaz 1.2.3, but I > deliberately want to upgrade to zope.frobnaz 2.0.2". It won't work > because the index simply doesn't expose the 2.0.2 version of zope.frobnaz. You can use find-links and point to the new location. > So the "locked down index" doesn't support two important use cases. And > building your own index isn't really a solution, IMO. The average > cavemen programmer won't do that... The problem here is that setuptools is too immature to handle those cases properly. We will have to write a lot more software to do this correctly. The KGS index approach was just something that would give us sanity with very little new software. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )