[Grok-dev] remove the download tarball functionality from grokproject?

[Godefroid Chapelle]

On 09/03/10 19:50, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> On 2010-3-9 18:56, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>
>>> That can
>>> easily be countered by specifying a download timeout for buildout.
>>>
>>> What problem do you still see remaining?
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>>
>> An issue I still see is that many people won't know how to do a download
>> timeout for buildout -- that certainly wasn't on the top of my head when
>> I thought about this issue, for instance. If someone installs Grok using
>> grokproject for the first time, we wouldn't people to get stuck and walk
>> away because some piece of infrastructure was down.
>>
>> This implies that grokproject should trigger buildout with such a
>> timeout set up.
>>
>> And how dangerous would it be to set such a timeout globally in the
>> default.cfg of buildout?
>
> I am not sure if buildout currently supports setting the timeout via a
> configuration file.

It does not support timeout in config files. It's a while I want this.

> It is probably not hard to add though.

Right. Done.

http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/trunk/src/zc/buildout/buildout.py?rev=109904&view=rev

>
> Wichert.

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