[Zope-dev] deprecate http://download.zope.org/distribution

[Tres Seaver]

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Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
> On 2008-11-12 23:41:55 +0100, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> said:
> 
>> http://download.zope.org/distribution was set up as a place to publish
>> distributions while we were learning about setuptools, eggs, and
>> pypi.  I think now, we're all using PyPI (or local repositories).  I'd
>> like to deprecate this site, making it read-only for now, but
>> eventually removing it.
> 
> Yeah, make it read only. But I'd just leave it there. We have the 
> policy of not removing eggs which are out there, so I suggest leaving 
> the eggs there.

- -1:  many of the eggs that are there should never have been released at
all in a public repository:  they are "attractive nuisances".

+1 for removing the bear trap ASAP.


Ters.
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