On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 14:56, Thomas Lotze <thomas@thomas-lotze.de> wrote:
Hi,
Hi Thomas :) First at all, thank you for your work.
I've been implementing a download API for buildout and have reached the point where I'd like to try using it for downloading the base config files referenced from a buildout config by the 'extends' option. This would have the benefit of allowing to cache those config files and being able to run a buildout using that feature while being offline.
Do you talk about index and find-links too? And for the bootstrap? I search a scenario to deploy a buildout fully offline.
- I think buildout should not unconditionally use a cached copy of a base configuration file. While it is sensible in other use cases to never access the network if a file is found in the cache, base configs can be expected to change and should IMHO be taken from the cache only when offline mode is active or an attempt at downloading failed.
Right. You think about "offline" option or "install-from-cache" option? offline seems to be a good candidate.
- The download cache to be used is configured as one of the options that are read from either ~/.buildout/default.cfg or buildout.cfg and their respective bases. In order to keep things simple, I'd suggest to use a download cache only if specified directly inside any of these two files, and ignore download-cache options in any downloaded base configs. This would be an exception to how options read from config files are combined, but one I deem worthwhile.
Good for me.
Opinions?
Hmm, just an idea on the same area: caching only some packages (not only "all" or "none"). Surely out of your scope... -- Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com>