Re: PLEASE don't remove eggs [was Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]]

Jim Fulton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zope3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

> On 9/26/07, Gary Poster <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I should make our own private copies of the eggs we use, to
>> completely isolate us from these sorts of things, but I have not
>> gotten around to it...nor am I thrilled at the prospect of that
>> overhead.
>
> This is also a technical issue:  As long as zc.buildout and setuptools
> foolishly accept dependency links from an egg, it'll be painful to
> detect accidental reliance on external repositories.

That's a good point.  I wouldn't go so far as to say "foolishly", but  
I would say that this is a policy that should be overrideable.   
Checkins to buildout (with tests, of course) accepted.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
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