[Zope-dev] zc.buildout semi-resolution

[Alex Clark]

Hi,


FWIW I spoke with Jim on #buildout this a.m. and he decided to revert 
my commit "because people need it". I.e. Some folks rely on 
trunk/bootstrap existing for their builds. While I don't necessarily 
agree that's a good idea, the argument "because people need it" makes 
1000x more sense to me than "Please revert" with no explanation. Or 
with a legal explanation I don't understand. I apologize to Jens and 
Tres if I was stubborn about this, but I did and still do feel strongly 
the commit I made was reasonable, and not reverting it until we could 
better understand the circumstances was reasonable too.

To clear up any remaining confusion:

- In the Plone community, it is quite common to make this type of 
change to indicate active development takes place somewhere else. We 
leave tags (and branches) in place in case people need them. I did not 
remove, or move the zc.buildout project, nor did I intend to disrupt 
development in any way. I simply wanted to "leave a message" on behalf 
of the work Jim and Domen were doing.

- Personally, I use an extension called "buildout.bootstrap" to always 
download the latest bootstrap.py file. Removing trunk broke my builds, 
at which point I cut a new release of buildout.bootstrap containing the 
new URL:


    - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/buildout.bootstrap/1.4.2


I hope the discussion on GitHub and Bitbucket, and other vendor 
services continues.



Alex



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