[Zope-dev] Re: zope.app stitching

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> We need to stitch zope.app into Zope 2 more carefully than we
> are now.  Much of what we are stitching is unreleased in Zope3
> and depends on things not stitched nto Zope 2.
> 
> Among other things, this means that we can't use
> 
>   python2.4 test.py -m.
> 
> to run all tests without getting test failures.
> 
> It would be great if someone would sort this out before
> we do any Zope 2.9 releases. :)

Well, from that vague "we need to do it more carefully" I deduce that
you would like to stitch in zope.app like we stitch in zope, i.e. each
package individually. Unfortunately, that will not work equally well
because there are several text files at zope.app, more than just the
__init__.py:

  DEPENDENCIES.cfg
  PACKAGE.cfg
  PUBLICATION.cfg
  browser.zcml
  configure.zcml
  content_types.py
  datetimeutils.py
  decorator.py
  ftesting.zcml
  menus.zcml
  meta.zcml
  servicenames.py
  timezones.py

At least the Python modules and zpkgutils files will be needed in Zope 2
as well. The real problem is that svn:externals doesn't work on files,
just on directories. So, we'd have to manage separate copies of those
files. Are you sure we want to get into that?

Philipp