[Grok-dev] how to manage the versions files, a plan

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 20:59, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
> <leorochael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wild idea...
>>
>> We should set a group of comments or settings in the generated
>> buildout.cfg that contain a machine-readable location of the original
>> urls for the various .cfg files. Then have grokproject generate a
>> bin/grok-update script that downloads these files from the indicated
>> locations.

I'm +1 to a versions-update script that donwloads the new versions.

Only one URL for the original location would be needed, i.e. pointing to 
releaseinfo. Alternatively just the version number of Grok.

Thinking about this some more, I think we should download all the 
versions file into a subdirectory, perhaps called 'versions'. That way 
it is easy to see which versions are involved and *that* those cfg files 
are about versions. When there's a version update, the system simply 
removes all files from that directory and downloads the new ones from 
the releaseinfo/<versionnumber> directory.

I'm trying to keep this very generic: i.e. there's a URL, it contains 
.cfg files, they'll all be downloaded into a versions dir on Grok, and 
Grok's buildout.cfg will always extend all of them. That way no specific 
knowledge about specific versions files needs to be built into the 
system, and we can change the layout when we want to.

The only slightly icky thing is that releaseinfo/1.1 would display an 
apache-generated HTML page that we'd need to pluck the versions from. 
Possibly instead we could generate a releaseinfo/1.1/MANIFEST file 
automatically that contains a manifest of the versions files in the 
directory.

Regards,

Martijn