[Distutils] problem with zc.buildout download-cache setting

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Sydney Weidman<syd at plug.ca> wrote:
...
> It seems odd to me that if the download_cache directory doesn't exist,
> that UserError is raised. Shouldn't the directory be created? What
> would be the harm in that? Or am I missing something?
>
> I realize that I could just mkdir downloads and it would work, but it
> seems to defeat the simplicity of "python bootstrap.py; bin/buidout;
> bin/instance start".

Download caches intended to be shared between buildouts, so they
aren't considered part of the buildout and aren't created as part of
bootstrapping the buildout.

buildout doesn't create the download cache for fear of hiding a
configuration bug.

Jim

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Jim Fulton