Jim Fulton wrote:
This is a very recent problem and a result of Jim's inconsistent handling of the "version.txt" matter yesterday. http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/MakingARelease says that zope.app/version.txt should be created on a tag and zope.app/PACKAGE.cfg should also be modified to include version.txt *on the tag*. Jim did the latter on the Zope 3.2 branch.
Yeah, I was trying to minimize the amount of work done on a tag. It didn't occur to me that this would affect Z2. :( In the future, we need to come up with a better way to handle this.
I wouldn't dare to mention my suggestions regarding issues like these... ;)
The Zope 2.9 externals currently point to the Zope 3.2 branch which references version.txt in PACKAGE.cfg but doesn't have one. Only the 3.2.0beta1 tag has it. I think that
a) zope.app/PACKAGE.cfg should not mention version.txt when there isn't one, meaning on the branch
b) Zope 2.9 externals should now point to the Zope 3.2.0beta1 tag.
I guess this would solve the problem, since the tag does have a version.txt.
Yup, it does solve the problem.
By the way, this issue reminds me: We haven't figured out how to handle Zope 2's version.txt at all! I totally forgot about it. Zope 2 expects a version.txt in Zope/lib/python, but zpkg has no way to support a data file that isn't in a Python package.
And there's the fact that this is a file that really *should* be generated by the release process.
Yes. It sort of is already now. When you check out a Zope 2 tag and run "make sdist" to create the tarball, it will first generate the version.txt and put it in the right place.
So there would be no way to package it nor to install it (I don't think distutils knows how to install a non-package-related datafile either).
I propose that the future place for Zope 2's version.txt is the Zope2 package. Some code inside Zope 2 that reads version info from version.txt would have to be changed for that, though. This should be fixed for the 2.9 beta, meaning today. I'm outside svn+ssh access range right now, so either you do it, Andreas, or you wait until I'm at home in about 5 hours.
I agree, this should be doen for this release.
Done in r40592 on Zope 2.9 branch. Philipp