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faassen at startifact

Oct 7, 2009, 1:29 PM

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allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg?

Hi there,

To quote Thomas Lotze in another discussion:

> [ztk.cfg] contains a line

> allow-picked-versions = false

> which makes buildout complain if it ends up using a package whose
> version it had to pick from the index, so you're required to specify a
> version for every package used by any part of the buildout. This line
> is a piece of policy that I'd like to see gone from ztk.cfg as well;
> if someone wants the behaviour, they can specify it in their
> buildout.cfg.

I agree with Thomas that we should remove this from ztk.cfg, as if we
publish this for reuse we don't want to impose this policy on everybody
who builds on it.

The question though is why this is in there in the first place.
Presumably it is to ensure that the *ZTK* locks down all versions. I
think we can reasonably ensure this by moving the
'allow-picked-versions' to the ZTK's "buildout.cfg" instead, right?

Regards,

Martijn

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hanno at hannosch

Oct 7, 2009, 1:40 PM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
> > [ztk.cfg] contains a line
>
> > allow-picked-versions = false
>
> I agree with Thomas that we should remove this from ztk.cfg, as if we
> publish this for reuse we don't want to impose this policy on everybody
> who builds on it.
>
> The question though is why this is in there in the first place.
> Presumably it is to ensure that the *ZTK* locks down all versions. I
> think we can reasonably ensure this by moving the
> 'allow-picked-versions' to the ZTK's "buildout.cfg" instead, right?

Yes, +1 for moving it to the buildout.cfg.

Hanno
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Oct 7, 2009, 5:50 PM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
>> > [ztk.cfg] contains a line
>>
>> > allow-picked-versions = false
>>
>> I agree with Thomas that we should remove this from ztk.cfg, as if we
>> publish this for reuse we don't want to impose this policy on everybody
>> who builds on it.
>>
>> The question though is why this is in there in the first place.
>> Presumably it is to ensure that the *ZTK* locks down all versions. I
>> think we can reasonably ensure this by moving the
>> 'allow-picked-versions' to the ZTK's "buildout.cfg" instead, right?
>
> Yes, +1 for moving it to the buildout.cfg.

If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
extension. This prints the picked versions with some explanation about
what required them, either to a file or to the console. This is a useful
sanity check: if you see a package in there that looks spurious you may
ask whether it should've been pinned somewhere.

Martin

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chris at simplistix

Oct 8, 2009, 1:25 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
> extension. This prints the picked versions with some explanation about
> what required them, either to a file or to the console. This is a useful
> sanity check: if you see a package in there that looks spurious you may
> ask whether it should've been pinned somewhere.

This should really be in buildout core.

Who maintains this extensions and could they be persuaded to merge it
into the main code base?

cheers,

Chris

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Oct 8, 2009, 3:31 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
>> extension. This prints the picked versions with some explanation about
>> what required them, either to a file or to the console. This is a useful
>> sanity check: if you see a package in there that looks spurious you may
>> ask whether it should've been pinned somewhere.
>
> This should really be in buildout core.
>
> Who maintains this extensions and could they be persuaded to merge it
> into the main code base?

Mustapha Benali. See PyPI.

I don't know if it needs to be in the core. Just do

[buildout]
extensions = buildout.dumppickedversions
...

And you're done.

Martin

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jim at zope

Oct 8, 2009, 3:56 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
>>> �> [ztk.cfg] contains a line
>>>
>>> �> allow-picked-versions = false
>>>
>>> I agree with Thomas that we should remove this from ztk.cfg, as if we
>>> publish this for reuse we don't want to impose this policy on everybody
>>> who builds on it.
>>>
>>> The question though is why this is in there in the first place.
>>> Presumably it is to ensure that the *ZTK* locks down all versions. I
>>> think we can reasonably ensure this by moving the
>>> 'allow-picked-versions' to the ZTK's "buildout.cfg" instead, right?
>>
>> Yes, +1 for moving it to the buildout.cfg.
>
> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
> �extension. This prints the picked versions with some explanation about
> what required them, either to a file or to the console. This is a useful
> sanity check: if you see a package in there that looks spurious you may
> ask whether it should've been pinned somewhere.

Running buildout in verbose mode (-v) gives you this same information.
Is the idea that this information gets printed even in normal mode?

Jim

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Oct 8, 2009, 4:26 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
>>>> > [ztk.cfg] contains a line
>>>>
>>>> > allow-picked-versions = false
>>>>
>>>> I agree with Thomas that we should remove this from ztk.cfg, as if we
>>>> publish this for reuse we don't want to impose this policy on everybody
>>>> who builds on it.
>>>>
>>>> The question though is why this is in there in the first place.
>>>> Presumably it is to ensure that the *ZTK* locks down all versions. I
>>>> think we can reasonably ensure this by moving the
>>>> 'allow-picked-versions' to the ZTK's "buildout.cfg" instead, right?
>>> Yes, +1 for moving it to the buildout.cfg.
>> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
>> extension. This prints the picked versions with some explanation about
>> what required them, either to a file or to the console. This is a useful
>> sanity check: if you see a package in there that looks spurious you may
>> ask whether it should've been pinned somewhere.
>
> Running buildout in verbose mode (-v) gives you this same information.
> Is the idea that this information gets printed even in normal mode?

Yeah:

- it gets printed always, summarised at the end
- it's a lot more concise than the -v output and easier to read
- the output is usable as a [versions] block and can be output to a file

I use a pattern where I have a devel.cfg that pins some things but allow
certain dependencies to float, and then writes the versions it picks to
kgs.cfg. For production deployments, there's a production.cfg which
(among other things) extends this kgs.cfg.

The idea is that once we have a known good configuration in development,
we check that file into svn so we have a record, and make sure that
absolutely everything is pinned in production.

Martin

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faassen at startifact

Oct 8, 2009, 5:59 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
>>> > [ztk.cfg] contains a line
>>>
>>> > allow-picked-versions = false
>>>
>>> I agree with Thomas that we should remove this from ztk.cfg, as if we
>>> publish this for reuse we don't want to impose this policy on everybody
>>> who builds on it.
>>>
>>> The question though is why this is in there in the first place.
>>> Presumably it is to ensure that the *ZTK* locks down all versions. I
>>> think we can reasonably ensure this by moving the
>>> 'allow-picked-versions' to the ZTK's "buildout.cfg" instead, right?
>> Yes, +1 for moving it to the buildout.cfg.
>
> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
> extension. This prints the picked versions with some explanation about
> what required them, either to a file or to the console. This is a useful
> sanity check: if you see a package in there that looks spurious you may
> ask whether it should've been pinned somewhere.

Does that make sense? After all, if we say allow-picked-version is
false, there never will *be* any picked versions to dump. Or am I
misunderstanding something?

Regards,

Martijn

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hanno at hannosch

Oct 8, 2009, 6:07 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
>> extension.
>
> Does that make sense? After all, if we say allow-picked-version is
> false, there never will *be* any picked versions to dump. Or am I
> misunderstanding something?

It doesn't make sense. With "allow-picked-version = false" you will
always get an error telling you which package and which version has
been picked but wasn't pinned. Once your build succeeds
buildout.dumppickedversions jumps in and will always present you with
an empty list.

Given that buildout.dumppickedversions is GPL whose use is
questionable in svn.zope.org, I'd just stick with using
allow-picked-version in buildout.cfg.

Hanno
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tl at gocept

Oct 8, 2009, 6:08 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Martijn Faassen
>>> <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
>>>> > [ztk.cfg] contains a line
>>>>
>>>> > allow-picked-versions = false
>>>>
>>>> I agree with Thomas that we should remove this from ztk.cfg, as if we
>>>> publish this for reuse we don't want to impose this policy on
>>>> everybody who builds on it.
>>>>
[...]
>> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
>> extension. This prints the picked versions with some explanation
>> about
>> what required them, either to a file or to the console. This is a
>> useful sanity check: if you see a package in there that looks spurious
>> you may ask whether it should've been pinned somewhere.
>
> Does that make sense? After all, if we say allow-picked-version is
> false, there never will *be* any picked versions to dump. Or am I
> misunderstanding something?

I think Martin wants to dump picked versions in the case that
allow-picked-versions=false is removed from ztk.cfg.

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Oct 8, 2009, 7:58 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen[at]startifact.com> wrote:
>> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>> If we do that, I'd also suggest we use the 'buildout.dumppickedversions'
>>> extension.
>> Does that make sense? After all, if we say allow-picked-version is
>> false, there never will *be* any picked versions to dump. Or am I
>> misunderstanding something?
>
> It doesn't make sense. With "allow-picked-version = false" you will
> always get an error telling you which package and which version has
> been picked but wasn't pinned. Once your build succeeds
> buildout.dumppickedversions jumps in and will always present you with
> an empty list.

Right, sorry, I must've been tired when I read this. In my mind, I read
it as "disallow-picked-versions = false". :)

> Given that buildout.dumppickedversions is GPL whose use is
> questionable in svn.zope.org,

Surely, using the extension isn't an issue. It's just referenced by name
and installed. That's like saying you can't use gcc (which I assume is
GPL licensed) to build C extensions.

> I'd just stick with using
> allow-picked-version in buildout.cfg.

Right. One is not an alternative to another. But it's useful to know
what got picked, if you allow things to get picked, and it can be hard
to pin everything always. Sometimes, you want to get newer versions
precisely so that you can test new things without having to know that a
new release is available and update your pins.

Anyway, different issue.

Martin

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Oct 8, 2009, 8:02 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Martin Aspeli wrote:

> Right, sorry, I must've been tired when I read this. In my mind, I read
> it as "disallow-picked-versions = false". :)

No, I'm not crazy after all. The thread is about *removing*
"allow-picked-versions=false" i.e. allowing versions to be picked. I
don't not hate those double negatives, dammit.

Martin

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faassen at startifact

Oct 8, 2009, 8:25 AM

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Re: allow-picked-versions=false in ztk.cfg? [In reply to]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>
>> Right, sorry, I must've been tired when I read this. In my mind, I read
>> it as "disallow-picked-versions = false". :)
>
> No, I'm not crazy after all. The thread is about *removing*
> "allow-picked-versions=false" i.e. allowing versions to be picked. I
> don't not hate those double negatives, dammit.

We're talking about moving it from ztk.cfg to buildout.cfg. ztk.cfg
should pin versions and that's it. It shouldn't have any other policy,
whether it's disallow-picked-versions or dumppickedversions.

People who want to see which versions got picked *in their own projects*
(using ztk.cfg or not) can use the dumppickedversions story.

Regards,

Martijn

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