Martijn Faassen wrote:
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
On 20 Dec 2005, at 08:51, Stefan H. Holek wrote:
On 18. Dez 2005, at 17:58, Tim Peters wrote:
Nobody should be installing from a checkout to begin with, right?
Ok, so that's probably where we disagree then ;-)
I almost exclusively work with checkouts, and I would think many developers (as opposed to "users") do. Is there really no way to allow "make install" to work from a sandbox?
I strongly disagree as well. I believe it is normal practice to grab a tag or branch tip from subversion and install that. Why would I ever grab some tarball when I'm at the command line already and use svn for everything else, anyway?
I'm not happy about this change either -- I just ran into it. I did the 'configure; make; make install' dance, and suddenly I run into an error. I like working with release tarballs but I don't like the experience to be different when I do a checkout. The least I expect is to run into an error message that doesn't tell me anything.
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. 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. 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