[Distutils] Towards a bandersnatch release - updates, PIP, contacting mirror owners

[Robert Collins]

On 8 April 2013 06:43, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I spend some more time on bandersnatch and I'm ready for a stable release, I
> guess.
>
> Updates
> ------------
>
> * Add a specific user agent to XML-RPC and plain HTTP calls
> * Add a specific user agent to the logging to support debugging
> * Provide a default (10s) network timeout and a config option to customize
> * Clean up README
>
> PIP
> ---
>
> I'd be happy to cut a release now. Holger Krekel asked me whether I could
> ensure that bandersnatch is pip installable. Looking through the PIP
> documentation I don't see how I can make a simple "pip install bandersnatch"
> repeatable.
>
> Especially if someone would run a public mirror I would prefer if they would
> use an installation method that makes their deployment repeatable. From my
> own experience and background I would prefer buildout in the following
> style:
>
> $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ctheune/bandersnatch
> $ cd bandersnatch
> $ hg co 1.0
> $ virtualenv-2.7 .
> $ bin/python bootstrap.py
> $ bin/buildout
> $ bin/bandersnatch
>
> Thoughts?

You can make it pip installable without breaking buildout; then folk
can choose themselves. Environments that are pip based will have a
harder time with more waste if you insist on buildout being the one
true way for your tool.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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