[Zope3-Users] building zope 3 instances?

[Chris Withers]

Sebastien Douche wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 00:11, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Please don't remove things! Never ever. People might still be using them.
>> That is getting a bit old. The confusion from having this cruft lying
>> around (in the same way as accidentally released packages) is causing a
>> lot more hurt tham people who're already using this (and hence already
>> have a local copy of the egg, which they can keep using should no egg be
>> available on pypi) would experience if they went away.
> 
> +1.

Glad I'm not the only one.

>> At the *very* least it's take about 2 minutes for a package manager to
>> put a large "DO NOT USE - THIS IS ONLY HERE TO SUPPORT EXISTING SETUPS"
>> at the top of the text on pypi to stop innocent bystanders getting
>> caught out.
> 
> Remove packages on Pypi only (and not on download.zope.org). The
> response here is find-links option, I think.

Why not download.zope.org too? Certainly I wish 
download.zope.org/distribution would go away...

cheers,

Chris

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