On 11/19/2012 09:47 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
On 2012-11-20 02:00:34 +0000, Tres Seaver said:
Amen. Let's not coddle folks who blindly install without checking, to the detriment of those who pay attention and will help find and fix bugs. Those who need the coddling should be paying somebody for the service.
I agree on principle something like the zc.buildout 2.0 alpha should go to PyPI so folks can start using, testing, giving feedback, etc. But I don't agree in practice it is the right thing to do when we know it is going to negatively affect a large number of users[1].
Whom is it actually breaking? People who do "easy_install zc.buildout"? For people who aren't trying to install it for the first time and whom already have it, isn't this what: [versions] zc.buildout = 1.5.2 is for? - C