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

[Russ Ferriday]

On 14 Nov 2008, at 16:40, Tres Seaver wrote:

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> Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>> On 2008-11-12 23:41:55 +0100, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> said:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> - -1:  many of the eggs that are there should never have been  
> released at
> all in a public repository:  they are "attractive nuisances".
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> +1 for removing the bear trap ASAP.


Might be worth putting a takedown message in place of the files.

There are many incoming links

--r.

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