[Product-Developers] Re: [Plone-developers] Do not use svn.plone.org for package links

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Maurits van Rees wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman, on 2008-08-05:
> > svn.plone.org is struggling with the traffic it gets, and way too much 
> > of that is due to setuptools continuously accessing it to find packages. 
> > There is no good reason for it to do so: we upload all our packages to 
> > pypi.python.org. Therefore I have reconfigured svn.plone.org to reject 
> > all requests from setuptools.
> >
> > If for some obscure reason you need to have setuptools access the 
> > plone.org subversion repositories please use svn-mirror.plone.org instead.
> 
> Does that mean setup.py should ideally not contain any links to
> svn.plone.org at all?  (And probably no links to svn in the
> long_description either.)  Most of the packages of plone have a line
> like this in setup.py:
> 
>       url='http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.session'
> 
> That makes svn.plone.org end up in
> http://pypi.python.org/simple/plone.session

I'ld say so, yes.

Wichert.

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