[Zope-dev] Re: Egg install bot results

[Stephan Richter]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Chris McDonough wrote:
> In the meantime, whose feet would I be shooting if I changed setup.py  
> dependency info so that, e.g. zope.tales (and the like) didn't pull in  
> as many dependencies?  Installing zope.tales (as an example, I'm sure  
> its as a result of a transitive dependency lower in the dep chain)  
> right now gets us ~ 75 other distribution, including very unrelated  
> ones:

I would welcomes this very much, because I use several packages outside of 
Zope as well. Now that we have the KGS, I feel much more comfortable with 
playing with the packages and their dependencies.

Note that Marius worked on a nifty little gtk-based tool during the Foilage 
Sprint that shows you the full dependency tree.

http://mg.pov.lt/gtkeggdeps/

Regards,
Stephan
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