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

[Chris Withers]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Thursday 15 November 2007, Chris Withers wrote:
>> Have all the things that have lead to buildout/kgs/etc been brought to
>> the attention of the distutils sig? This *must* be a problem that all
>> decent sized python frameworks are facing.
> 
> We are still experimenting. I think once we tried our solutions out a little 
> bit more, we can talk to the distutil sig group.

Why not engage with them at this stage? There are plenty of bright 
people there I'd bet, and the more people thinking about this the 
better, right?

 From my perspective, it would be great if whatever turns out to be the 
right solution gets built in at the python library level, not the zope 
level.

>> How are other communities solving this problems?
> 
> I bet you they don't have them.

I'd be surprised if twisted, paste and the like haven't bumped into this 
problem ;-)

>> What's the "standard" way of solving this problem in the python world?
> 
> I don't think there is one.

Then surely disutils-sig is the place to come up with one?
(thinking of Martijn's recent comments about "drastically improv[ing] 
both the quality and quantity of our communication with the rest of the 
world)

cheers,

Chris

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