[Paul Winkler]
I think one reason people are just now starting to complain is that we had no idea this change was coming. Checkouts don't look any different, so it was a bit of a surprise to see such a big change in the tarball.
... [Jim Fulton]
The tar ball looks the same (wrt configure/make/make install). It's the checkout that has changed.
I'm sure Paul meant that the content of the tarball _looks_ very different now. Change is always disconcerting. I vividly recall that when ZODB switched to zpkgtools-based releases, we had messages from people staring at the tarball wondering where the ZODB code was -- including one from Jeremy ;-): http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2004-June/007483.html ... Also (and I say this realizing that I haven't followed zpkg development at all) is there any chance of getting a ZODB release where the code is in some obvious looking place? I'm sure I'm just confused because I'm used to the old way of doing things, but I initially thought I had grabbed the wrong thing because I couldn't find the source code. The better news is that those kinds of messages died out quickly, but it was certainly a shock at the start