[Zope-dev] Re: buildout 'versions' and 'develop' conflict

[Martijn Faassen]

Christian Theune wrote:

> Stephan Richter schrieb:
>> On Saturday 23 February 2008, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>> The additional version specification should be merged into the  
>>>> extends version
>>>> section. The version "1.3.1dev" is the version the develop egg  
>>>> specifies.
>>> Yes. That's how it works now.
>>
>> Cool, then I think the behavior is correct. I think it is merely a 
>> matter of communicating that things work this way.
> 
> I agree.

Shame on you, Christian, are you a Grok developer? :)

It's a clear DRY violation, the name of the package (and even the 
version number) repeats here.

This means we should not be satisfied with the response of communication 
if there's a way to fix this. There are two ways to fix this:

* change 'develop'. It's clear this one is out. People like its current 
behavior. I'm surprised not more people were surprised than me, but I 
guess I'm just as smart as most people. :)

* add a new option, 'really_develop', that adds the thing to [versions] 
and to the develop path at the same time.

Regards,

Martijn