[Zope-dev] why external version indexes don't fulfill all use cases for development

[Stephan Richter]

On Sunday 11 November 2007, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007 8:06 AM, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
> > I therefore still believe that version dependency information should
> > move out of external indexes and into packages.
>
> This is at least the intuitive place for this information. My
> application requires Grok 0.11, which requires zope 3.4.0b2 which then
> would be a package that doesn't contain any code, just requirements of
> eggs that in turn has requirements of their own. I'm not even sure
> this *is* different from how the unices does it, but it just seems the
> obvious way of doing it. I would be interested in knowing if this has
> drawbacks.

Meta-eggs are considered a bad idea in the Python world. I originally wanted 
to create a meta-egg, but Jim convinced my to use a different approach; hence 
the index.

Regards,
Stephan
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