[Distutils] nailed-down versions by having custom index

[Reinout van Rees]

On 02/02/2010 10:25 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

>> But how to get the right collection of tarballs in there? Is that a
>> by-hand approach? Can you automate it?
>
> You might look at compoze:  it is designed to allow fetching sources and
> building an index based on the current workingset:
>
>    http://svn.repoze.org/compoze/trunk/

Thanks, I'll try that one out.  He he, a README in structuredtext (not 
reST) format if I'm not mistaken.  I still like that format :-)

>> Question 2: I thought you could only have one index.  So installing
>> something extra from pypi seems out.  How do people handle that?
>
> Fetch it from pypi and put it in your index.

My fear is that I end up with quite a lot of project-specific custom 
indexes if I want to keep it rebuildable. Multiply that with a quite a 
number of project releases (so: new indexes) and you're looking at a big 
bucket of bits.

How's that working out in practice for you?


If you have a base "product/framework/whatever"  (a bunch of libraries, 
partly your own and partly from pypi), I can see it is useful to have 
that in such a custom index. But multiple in-house websites will use 
that *and* add their own extra needed libraries to the mix.

=> So you need to add a new index for that, duplicating the 
"product/framework/whatever" release and adding your own extra eggs?



Reinout


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