[Grok-dev] Re: solving buildout problems - pinning down eggs

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
>> Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> writes:
>>
>>> We need to have, and use, the facility to "pin down" Grok's
>>> dependencies to specific version numbers.  This means we need to
>>> produce a complete list of *all* of the egg versions that grok is
>>> using.
>>
>> That won't break things even more often?  I thought that PyPI by
>> default removed access to old versions of a product once a new one was
>> submitted - or, since all Grok dependencies are either our packages or
>> those of the Zope 3 project, are we trusting them to upload correctly
>> and leave old versions accessible?
> 
> No, the older versions are still accessible by default as far as I'm 
> aware. Anyway, it'd be really bad that as soon as, say, lxml 2.0alpha 
> was submitted, lxml 1.3 is inaccessible, right?

PyPI just *hides* them for humans. The simple PyPI index still lists 
them (it is what setuptools and zc.buildout use).


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