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

[Martijn Faassen]

Reinout van Rees wrote:
> 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!

I didn't know that this existed. Perhaps you can describe how this would 
help us?

Regards,

Martijn