[Catalog-sig] Why so many zc.buildout versions?

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> For example, the current effort to bake static pages could bake these
>> pages instead.
>
> Certainly not instead; in addition, if there are volunteers to  
> implement
> that.

Sure,

>
>> We could make the new index available at a different
>> URL for people to play with while we worked the kinks out of the
>> process.
>
> I have been thinking about the same thing. I think it would be good
> to have, however, it will surely take some time until all setuptools
> implementations learn to use it.

No, not at all.  You can tell setuptools to use a different index  
than the current one.  For example, this is a command-line option for  
easy_install and a configuration option for buildout.

>> Of course, those of us who use the cheesehop and setuptools
>> extensively can also achieve much of this by changing the way we  
>> work.
>
> Hmm. How about those using them extensively start contributing to
> them also?

I like to think that I am by participating in this discussion.   
Actually changing the cheeseshop software has a very high learning  
curve. I don't think that I can make that kind of time any time  
soon.  I'm very grateful that you and René are doing what you're  
doing.  I also suspect that, given your and René's activity, it would  
be counter productive for someone else to get involved at that level,  
but maybe I'm wrong about that.

Jim

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