Re: Zope version cfgs

On 2/22/14, 7:30 AM, Alex Clark wrote:
> 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/


Make that http://dist.plone.org/versions/ (shorter URL, open for discussion)


>
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
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