[Zope-dev] setting missing minimum version in setup.py

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Chris Withers wrote:
> >> Tres Seaver wrote:
> >>>>>> KGS the 
> >>>>>> concept is very easy to implement; you just make available on some URL a 
> >>>>>> buildout versions.cfg, or you run your own package index.
> >>>>> OK, the former I can see happening on an end-user project, the latter is 
> >>>>> just too much work.
> >>> Not really.  Collect the tarballs, run a script, configure Apache to
> >>> serve that diretory. 
> >> Hmm, too much... but is it needed?
> >> Can you not point index at just a local folder on disk?
> >> I'm sure the Plone folks did something like this, maybe Hanno can chime in?
> > 
> > What we do is: collect the tarballs, serve the resulting directory. I
> > have not seen a need to run a script.
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> If you want to an index, rather than just a directory for 'find-links',
> you need to create the 'PyPI simple format' directory structure.

What is the advantage of creating an index?

Wichert.

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