[Grok-dev] syncing versions.cfg in grokcore.* family

[Reinout van Rees]

On 2009-09-17, Hanno Schlichting <hanno at hannosch.eu> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
>> Sounds like an "extends=http://somewhere.else" which prevents you from running
>> buildout when you don't have an internet connection?
>>
>> Or has this been fixed in recent buildouts?
>
> I think Thomas Lotze worked on this as part of his "download cache
> API", which is part of buildout 1.4 IIRC.

I see it now in 1.4.0's changelog: "Used the download API to allow caching of
base configurations (specified by the buildout section's 'extends' option)."

Hurray, this really is a great help!


Reinout

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