[ZODB-Dev] ZODB 3.3 beta 1 released

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:44, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:31 am, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>  > Does this release still have the PKG-INFO that was generated by the old
>  > setup.py and used to update the entry on PyPI?
> 
> The PKG-INFO is generated by distutils; if you run "setup.py sdist", the 
> resulting distribution will contain PKG-INFO.

It's helpful to have around in distributions, because it contains a nice
chunk of metadata in a human readable form.

> The distribution layout is definately different.  The layout is mandated by 
> Jim.  The model is that a Zope distribution is similar to a Linux 
> distribution: there's some bootstrap code at the top, and then a pile of 
> packages that get installed.

Okay.  I find it disorienting, but I'm not involved in the design
process :-).

Jeremy