[Zope-dev] Re: Product version number redundancy with version.txt and setup.py

[Alexander Limi]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:44:43 -0700, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net>  
wrote:

> Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> Tim Hicks wrote:
>> >Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in
>> >having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and
>> >version.txt?
>>
>> Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you
>> don't want to update two places.
>>
>> I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent
>> registry of installed products and any information about them at all
>> anymore?
>
> ZClasses

Speaking of which, are there plans to rip out ZClasses from Zope 2.12?  
It's about time!

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