Andrew Sawyers wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:47 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
I'll note, FWIW, that we don't do installs from Zope 3 checkouts. I think it's worth asking whether this is an important requirement. If it is, then we should make it work. Question is, is it worth delaying the release? I don't know.
I think it's an important requirement; many of us have done this dance for years. The reason I'd suspect this got done by Chris M was to ease our pains we'd had to work around over time and make it easier for people coming into the Zope Community - or their support staff (i.e. Admins)
But those people use releases, not checkouts AFAIK. ...
If we did stay with the current situation, we'd need to cleanup the documentation so that a developer can easily reminder herself what she can do and how to do it.
If it's indeed *easy* and clear, that should be ok. It just needs to work sensibly :) So many of us are used to the ./configure; make; make install dance.
I'll note that, as a developer, I have never done this and probably never would want to do this. The only use case for this is a deployer of Zope that wants to install an unreleased revision of Zope. If this use case is driving this, a better solution might be to build automatic snapshot releases. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org