Product version number redundancy with version.txt and setup.py
Hi, Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and version.txt? Both seem to be necessary - the first for use with pypi and the second so that Zope knows what version of a product it has. The former seems more like it should be the preferred single place for this information. Does anyone have any ideas about how we might update Zope to read version information from setup.py instead? The initializeProduct function at <http://svn.zope.org/Zope/trunk/lib/python/App/Product.py?rev=73460&view=auto> seems to be the relevant place. However, I'm not sure if that code has access to the full eggy package at that stage. My guess is that the relevant object (productp?) might already have been adjusted for backward compatibility reasons at that stage. Any ideas? Tim
Tim Hicks wrote:
Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and version.txt?
Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you don't want to update two places. I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent registry of installed products and any information about them at all anymore? Having the product registry persistent causes quite some trouble when moving Data.fs across servers and doesn't seem to add much to any benefit. For what kind of use-case do people use that registry nowadays, since we got rid of persistent products? Hanno
Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote:
Tim Hicks wrote:
Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and version.txt?
Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you don't want to update two places.
I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent registry of installed products and any information about them at all anymore?
ZClasses Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:44:43 -0700, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> wrote:
Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote:
Tim Hicks wrote:
Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and version.txt?
Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you don't want to update two places.
I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent registry of installed products and any information about them at all anymore?
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Speaking of which, are there plans to rip out ZClasses from Zope 2.12? It's about time! -- Alexander Limi ยท http://limi.net
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