[Grok-dev] Re: Python UK meeting and Django

Leonardo Rochael Almeida leorochael at gmail.com
Wed May 7 11:06:38 EDT 2008


Hi All,

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Then, perhaps we shouldn't put the "grok" package itself on pypi or
>> anywhere else reachable through it? Or maybe we should put some dummy
>> package that, on installation (or on attempted use) would instruct the
>> user to Do The Right Thing (TM).
>>
>> "grokproject" could then create a buildout with the proper
>> "find-links" to actually find the right grok.
>
> Hm, sounds like it could work.
>
> I'm -1 to this now as it'll make our release story more complicated. We have
> various packages that use grok and they'd also need to put in that
> find-links. [...]

Not really... We could release all our packages to PYPI *except* for
grok. The grok shim we put there doesn't really need to be updated,
with each grok release, though perhaps it should be updated with each
grokproject release, so it depends on and pulls the right
grokproject...


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