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

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 2010-3-9 18:56, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
>> That can
>> easily be countered by specifying a download timeout for buildout.
>>
>> What problem do you still see remaining?
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> An issue I still see is that many people won't know how to do a download
> timeout for buildout -- that certainly wasn't on the top of my head when
> I thought about this issue, for instance. If someone installs Grok using
> grokproject for the first time, we wouldn't people to get stuck and walk
> away because some piece of infrastructure was down.
>
> This implies that grokproject should trigger buildout with such a
> timeout set up.
>
> And how dangerous would it be to set such a timeout globally in the
> default.cfg of buildout?

I am not sure if buildout currently supports setting the timeout via a 
configuration file. It is probably not hard to add though.

Wichert.


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