[Devel] Re-doing our dependency download system so it pulls most things in from linode.openhatch.org

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> So what I'm planning is:
>
> * Keep using buildout
>
> * Reconfigure it to search http://linode.openhatch.org/~paulproteus/ for 
> tarballs, rather than searching the Python Package Index ("PyPI")
>
> * If people need to add dependencies that are not there, you will have 
> to add explicit download URLs to setup.py so that the tool system can 
> find the tarball you need
>
> I'd be interested to hear what other people think of this plan. I'm 
> putting it together now; in general I'm open to feedback on it!

Done! Thanks to Paul for testing.

I marked https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue350 as resolved, but I just did a 
fresh test, and it is *now* (as of 4 minutes ago) totally resolved.

So: if you've had problems getting ./bin/buildout to succeed, now is your 
chance: please retry!

(Vivek, I'm looking at you.)

(-:,

-- Asheesh.

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