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

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Thanks everybody for this discussion. I'm going to bail out now, and I 
want to share some of my conclusions:

* We're going to have to live with the current 'versions/develop' story 
for a while. I've started try to document the existing behavior in 
buildout's doctests (faassen-develop) branch. I'll also document it for 
Grok.

* It would be nice if there was some way to override dependency 
constraints: point at a (development) package and give it a special 
version number that *always* satisfies all dependency constraints and is 
*always* the most specific package to do so.

* All this makes me think again about the topic of dependency constraint 
resolution with special override nodes (also in relation to the addition 
of 'or' constraints to setuptools).

* Doing a good dependency constraint resolution needs extensions to the 
cheeseshop: as I understand it, no dependency information is online 
right now and the package needs to be downloaded in order to inspect it. 
Basically it'd be nice if the egg_info directory was published for each 
release.

Regards,

Martijn