Re: Zope version cfgs

Eric Steele schreef op 22-02-14 00:51:
> How do we want to handle referencing zope/zopeapp/ztk versions.cfg files
> now that downloads.zope.org is no longer hosting them? Right now, we've
> got the cfgs for the latest tags in the 4.3.3 and 5.0 buildouts with the
> thought of putting them into the relevant release folders at
> http://dist.plone.org/release/.
>
> What seems like the better option would be to pull in the old ones as
> well and host them all somewhere on dist.plone.org. This gets them
> behind our CDN and helps out those running older releases of Plone. Is
> there any reason we couldn't do that? Is anyone willing to own this
> task?
>
> Eric

Is download.zope.org really no longer hosting them or is it scheduled to 
stop servicing those requests?  It seems good at the moment.

You mention downloads.zope.org (plural) which is not available.  But 
note that there is downloads.buildout.org (plural) and download.zope.org 
(singular) which are both available.  So I wonder if this is simply a 
mixup between two domain names.

It could be good to host these files ourselves, to avoid problems when 
download.zope.org really is down.  It is one server less that needs to 
be up for some buildouts to finish correctly.

BTW, I have a small script that reads a buildout config file, parses the 
extends lines and downloads them:
https://gist.github.com/mauritsvanrees/1097587
I use that to download the extends of the plone versions.cfg for the 
Plone version that a client buildout is using and I put those files in 
version control so the buildout does not need to go online for those 
extends lines.

Cheers,


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Zest Software: http://zestsoftware.nl


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