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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Gary Poster wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Other arguments are to drop using released packages.  I'm not in favor of this.

To be clear, I'm not arguing against using released packages, though I
think would make sense to either ungzip them so they compress better in
Bazaar, or possibly untar them, if we can make that work.

> I think the right answer for this is the one that is usually followed for buildout development: keep a distribution repository that buildout points to for download.  That way developers only download what they need.  The challenge for us is how to get that to work for our deployment.

Could you clarify whether you mean a VCS repository or a package repository?

Aaron
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