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

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Christian Theune wrote:
> >Martijn Faassen schrieb:
> [snip]
> >>It's a clear DRY violation, the name of the package (and even the 
> >>version number) repeats here.
> >
> >It's not clear to me that it's a DRY violation (see my argument that 
> >those functions are actually orthogonal).
> 
> The rule for the most common use case is now:
> 
> If you want to develop a package, add it to 'develop' *and* create a 
> versions section if it doesn't exist, let the 'versions' line in 
> [buildout] point to it, and add the "package_name = " to it.
> 
> I see a repetition in the package name here. You list it in two places. 
> I think that's a DRY violation given that wanting a package listed in 
> develop to be picked up is the most common use case.

That highly depends on how you work. I normally do not pin to exact
revisions but to ranges, which work just fun with dev eggs. 

If you don't want to pin something - remove the pin. Don't expect
something to magically make your pin go away.

Wichert.

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