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