[Grok-dev] remove the download tarball functionality from grokproject?

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Wed Mar 3 02:20:48 EST 2010


On 2010-3-2 21:41, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> So, a volunteer task:
>
> * figure out a way (using eggbasket?) to download a list of requirements
> of Grok 1.1. Including windows eggs and such.
>
> * put all the requirements into a directory and publishing them on a URL
> using some kind of apache-like directory index thing.
>
> * add a find-links to buildout.cfg of a grokproject to that URL
>
> * Does grok still install?
>
> * now knock out pypi.python.org, possibly by blocking out the host
> entirely on your machine. (Alternatively, very very carefully monitor
> network traffic. That's a less reliable method)
>
> * see whether all packages are indeed coming from the find-links http
> site you put up, and not from anywhere else. I.e. it still works no
> matter what pypi does.
>
> * is it significantly slower? Faster? tell us!

I (and others) have often done this for other projects, so I know it 
works. The only trick is to specify a timeout when invoking buildout. I 
always use "bin/buildout -t 2", which makes pypi being down almost 
unnoticable.

Wichert.=

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