Re: Zope version cfgs

On 2/21/14, 7:39 PM, Eric Steele wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2014, at 19:09, Maurits van Rees wrote:
>
>     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,
>
>     --
>     Maurits van Rees: http://maurits.vanrees.org/
>     Zest Software: http://zestsoftware.nl
>
> Sorry, I meant download.zope.org. According to this email from Hanno in
> June
> <http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/download-zope-org-td7566681.html>,
> "... the Zope infrastructure team has decided to discourage relying on
> download.zope.org for production deployments...The next Zope 2 releases
> won't be available from download.zope.org anymore, so coredev and any
> release machinery should probably be adjusted."
>
> So, old ones are still there, but the latest Zope2 release, 2.13.22, is
> not. Currently the cfgs for that live in GitHub tags
> <https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/blob/2.13.22/versions.cfg> and
> in our coredev buildout
> <https://github.com/plone/buildout.coredev/commit/eee10225facad6abc9d96c892660ac40ec2d13f6>.
> In the process of releasing 4.3.3, I've added that to the release
> directory on dist.plone.org
> <http://dist.plone.org/release/4.3.3-pending/zope-versions.cfg>.
>
> So the question is really this: From this point forward, we need to host
> the version pins for any new Zope releases that Plone uses. Since we
> have the infrastructure in place to do so in a far more stable manner,
> should we host the old ones as well?

Yes, done (using Maurits' script, thanks!):

- http://dist.plone.org/release/versions/

>
> Eric
>
>
>
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