[ZF] Thoughts about the process

Jeff Rush jeff at taupro.com
Mon Aug 27 16:12:33 EDT 2007


Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> From what I can tell, we're getting there with this sort of thing (at
> least I see folks working on setuptools distributions of core
> components).  I haven't been paying much attention to how Zope 3 is
> released lately, but the last time I looked, it was in the form of a big
> tarball.  It would be great if instead it was released as a metapackage
> that caused all distributions it depended on to be installed when it was.

Sounds like a good idea, but doesn't this approach make Zope more dependent on
the Cheeseshop, in general?  Can we depend on the Cheeseshop at this point in
time or should a Zope-shop be set up in the interim, as a mirror/fallback if
this approach is taken?

-Jeff



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