[Zope-CMF] [Checkins] SVN: Products.CMFCalendar/trunk/setup.py - dependency cleanup

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On Feb 16, 2009, at 13:50 , Charlie Clark wrote:

> Am 16.02.2009 um 13:08 schrieb Jens Vagelpohl:
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>> I'm wondering, ist it necessary to declare a dependency where we know
>> that it is a required dependency for another dependency we already
>> declare? Specifically, if CMFDefault is declared as dependency, is it
>> necessary to also declare CMFCore because we know CMFDefault already
>> declares it?
>
>
> hm, do we always *know* that?
>
> Unless dealing with known behemoths aka Zope2, I'd go with explicit is
> better than implicit and expect declarations for any import statement.

Yes, that's a good point.


> Then again I'm still not convinced that the CMF itself isn't a mini-
> behemoth to be eaten tail, toenails and all.

It depends on how you look at the dependencies. If you mean  
installation dependencies then I think there's been great progress  
disentangling the different packages. If you mean "I don't need Y for  
installing X, but really, X is not all that useful without Y" that's a  
different issue. But that's off-topic for this thread ;-)

jens



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