[Zope-dev] [Fwd: [Bug 343079] [NEW] Broken distribution (2009-03-15)]

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
>> Tres Seaver wrote:
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>>> I mean an index which supplies the 'simple' PyPI interface, such that we
>>> could tell people to 'easy_install' from it, e.g.:
>>>
>>>  $ /path/to/bin/easy_install -i http://kgs.zope.org/Zope2/2.1.2
>> But how do you then set things up when you want to use other eggs that 
>> are only available on PyPI? Surely as soon as you add PyPI as an egg 
>> source, things go belly up?
> 
> Personally, I evaluate such eggs in a sandbox, and then add them to the
> project-specific index once I'm sure that they work with the other
> software in the index:  I don't use PyPI at all when building out
> production sites.

That seems overly heavyweight for the average new user.

"no, sorry, you can't use Zope 2.12 with anything other than what it 
comes with unless you get your own egg repository running"

:-S

Chris

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