[Interface-dev] Separate zope.interface package

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Jun 14, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

> On Monday 14 June 2004 10:38 am, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> What, specifically, do you feel was a mistake?  Using the ZopeX3 
>>> branch,
>>
>> Yes
>>
>>> sharing the version number, both,
>>
>> Yes
>
> That makes it clear; thanks!
>
>> That was not my intent.  One of the main points of the repository work
>
> I presume you mean the packaging effort.
>
>> was to decouple repository layout and release management.  Of course,
>> the "standard" subversion layout strategy tends to couple repository
>> layout and releases. :(  I need to ponder this.
>
> I don't think this is a function of the standard Subversion project 
> layout at
> all.  I do think some of the current issues here are tightly related 
> to a
> couple of things:
>
> - Python's difficulty in dealing with packages that are split across 
> multiple
> locations (where len(__path__) > 1); the pkgutil bug should be seen as 
> quite
> serious, I think, but there have been no followups other than my own:
>
>     http://www.python.org/sf/935117
>
> - your expectation that dependencies will be part of the checkout 
> instead of
> separate packages that need to be installed.


another option, at least for zope.interface would be to explore the use 
of the svn:externals on the zope package itself to pull in 
zope.interface from whatever repository location it lives. this isn't 
without some caveats, but its useful.

cheers,

-kapil