[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: KGS Site Updated

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
>> It's a limitation of buildout, perhaps.  It is possible to use
>> setuptools with multiple indexes:  'compoze' allows spelling multiple
>> '-index-url' items on the command line.  E.g.::
> 
> I'm curious what API you're using.
> 
> buildout uses setuptools.package_index.PackageIndex.  This only  
> accepts a single index URL.  Of course, I could create multiple index  
> instances, use each one and merge the results.  Is that what you're  
> doing?

Yes.  See the 'compoze.fetcher.Fetcher.download_distributions':

 http://repoze.org/viewcvs/compoze/trunk/compoze/fetcher.py?view=auto

I imagine it would be pretty simple to add a per-package override to
buildout.cfg which caused a separate index to be used to fetch a given
distribution.


Tres.
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