[Zope-dev] Re: release checker bot results (11/17/2007)

[Stephan Richter]

On Saturday 17 November 2007, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> The recurring number of 77 dependencies is suspicious. No doubt the
> various zope.app packages with their huge amount of dependencies are
> behind this. Apparently, those 77 eggs are the minimal Zope3
> installation we can do from eggs.
>
> This demonstrates very well that we could just as well have kept large
> parts of zope.app (the ones that are among those 77 eggs) in one big egg
> and made our lives a lot easier.

We have seen several of those common set of dependencies before when Marius 
and I checked the dependency tree with his little GTK UI. I remember a number 
of 65 being prominent.

Regards,
Stephan
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