easy_installability of older bzr releases.

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:55:55PM +0200, Wouter van Heyst wrote:

...

> > > >    4) change http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download to include links for older
> > > >        releases

...

> > > I like the sound of #3 more.  If the metadata is intended to point to
> > > a place where all old releases can be obtained then doing so in a way
> > > that works for machines but not for people would be a bit weird.
> 
> #3 would mean working for machines, but not for people imo. Whereas
> people can follow an extra level of indirection from /Download, and
> machines can parse #4.  So that is what I'll be going to do, in lieu of
> #1 it is the only workable option I see.

The mechanism I've tried to use to keep the Download page clean, but
still have the links (easy_install can find 1.12 I added as test) got
introduced in moinmoin in version 1.6.0, we're using 1.5.7. beuno has
asked IS for an upgrade.

http://moinmo.in/HelpOnComments

Wouter van Heyst