[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 5 19:39:18 CEST 2009

I'm not sure exactly what the purpose or mechanism for /external is. Sure, it's like a snapshot dir, probably used for to pull some stuff into other process? Seems to me like it might be interesting to, for example, convert to a simple config file + script that lets you specify a package (repository) + tag, which can then be easily pulled in.

But it'd be nice to know where and how exactly this is used. Basically it contains released versions of packages that some parts of Python depend on. For example, Sphinx dependencies to build the docs reside their. A simple script that downloads a tarball and extracts it seems more elegant.

Such a script would, in particular, also have to work on the Windows buildbot slaves. /external is primarily used for the Window build.

Regards, Martin

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