[Zope-dev] Proposal: Scrap zpkg for Zope2 releases

[Andreas Jung]

--On 22. Juni 2006 11:01:21 -0400 Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/22/06, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>> I believe that the extra flexibility which zpkg is intended to provide
>> (dependency-based subset distributions, primarily) would be better
>> served by moving Zope to use eggs, and that we should thus retire zpkg
>> as the means for building Zope2 releases.  Instead, we should recreate
>> the version of the 'inst' stuff removed in the 2.9 beta cycle, and
>> update it for any changes to the tree made since then.
>
> +1

+2 from the release manager side. zpkg has always been a mystery to me. 
Dealing with zpkg issues has always been like driving with 100mph through 
fog.

Andreas 
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