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

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> >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. 
> 
> I'm confused. How do you work with ranges in a versions section? I'm 
> talking about this construction:
> 
> [buildout]
> develop = my_package
> versions = some_release
> 
> [some_release]
> my_package = 3
> 
> I didn't realize you could work with ranges there?

I don't, but I can put ranges in setup.py.

> >If you don't want to pin something - remove the pin. Don't expect
> >something to magically make your pin go away.
> 
> I do want to pin everything but the packages I'm presently developing.
> 
> Do you want your 'develop' packages to be picked up if there's a 
> released version of the package available somewhere, and your ranges 
> allow both to be picked up equally, by the way?

Only if it has a newer version number or I somehow enforce that.

Wichert.

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