[Zope-dev] zope-2.9 r40780 make install doesn't finish, files missing from bin

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 20 Dec 2005, at 08:51, Stefan H. Holek wrote:
>>
>>> On 18. Dez 2005, at 17:58, Tim Peters wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nobody should be installing from a checkout to begin with, right?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, so that's probably where we disagree then ;-)
>>>
>>> I almost exclusively work with checkouts, and I would think many  
>>> developers (as opposed to "users") do. Is there really no way to  
>>> allow "make install" to work from a sandbox?
>>
>>
>> I strongly disagree as well. I believe it is normal practice to grab  
>> a tag or branch tip from subversion and install that. Why would I  
>> ever grab some tarball when I'm at the command line already and use  
>> svn for everything else, anyway? 
> 
> 
> I'm not happy about this change either -- I just ran into it. I did the 
> 'configure; make; make install' dance, and suddenly I run into an error.
> I like working with release tarballs but I don't like the experience to 
> be different when I do a checkout. The least I expect is to run into an 
> error message that doesn't tell me anything.

I'll note, FWIW, that we don't do installs from Zope 3 checkouts.
I think it's worth asking whether this is an important requirement.
If it is, then we should make it work.  Question is, is it worth
delaying the release?  I don't know.

If we did stay with the current situation, we'd need to cleanup the
documentation so that a developer can easily reminder herself
what she can do and how to do it.

Jim

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