Tres Seaver wrote:
Since you're denoting this as a "current version number", do I take it that you're planning on changing the way Zope 2.9 and 2.10 releases are created as well? I would consider egg-based deployment a feature; at least it's a big enough change that I'd be worried for it to occur in a maintenance release.
After all, zpkg *does* work and the way zpkg-based releases are installed *is* documented (hence protest against this being a bugfix). It just gives some people headaches (which is why I'm +1 to the overall idea).
We've had zpkg-related bugs after *each* Zope 2.9 release; there are a couple of open ones now for 2.10.
Indeed, I count three open issues, all related to test.py (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/2121 and the two it links to). Sounds like there's only one real issue behind them (wrong test.py).
I would argue that the patch is minimal enough to apply to 2.9.4 and 2.10 final without significant risk.
I disagree, but in the end it's your, Andreas's and whoever-else's call as to how the risk of switching in between minor releases is weighed against the number of problems we have with zpkg. There *are* significant semantic differences between a zpkg checkout and the one you produced, as pointed out by my other email a minute ago. Philipp