Previously Laurence Rowe wrote:
Hanno Schlichting wrote:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
I just looked at the PyPI page of 'transaction':
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/transaction
And I see some weirdnesses:
* it's called 'transaction 1.0a1'
* the 'changes' claim however:
1.0 (unreleased)
What's up? Clearly something went wrong during the releasing of this package, at least documentation-wise. Should be fixed.
The documentation is wrong indeed.
Note that zope.sqlalchemy pulls in this package as a dependency, even though I don't think ZODB 3.8 comes with that version of transaction...
The transaction module has been moved out of the ZODB egg for ZODB trunk aka 3.9 as far as I know.
That means the stand-alone transaction package can probably not be used with any ZODB 3.8 versions.
But except the wrong documentation, I don't see a problem with the release as such. IIRC someone wanted to use it outside the ZODB and it was moved out and got an early alpha release.
The dependency lets us run the tests easily. It's quite stable, so it doesn't seem to cause any problems if it gets downloaded into a zope 2.10 buildout. You can always use the additional-fake-eggs = transaction if it's a problem.
transaction is also used by repoze.tm in non-Zope environments such as TurboGears 2 and Pylons. Those tend to not use buildout and certainly don't want to see all of zope.* pulled in. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.