[Zope-dev] Re: zope.interface compatibility question

[Andreas Jung]

--On 22. März 2008 11:00:00 +0100 Felix Schwarz <felix.schwarz at web.de> 
wrote:

> Andreas Jung schrieb:
>> The best thing is: try it out! Since your application has unittests, it
>> should be easy to verify the functionality against a new version :-)
>
> The problem is more complicated unfortunately: I want to use z3c.rml
> which needs zope.schema, zope.interface and other packages. Fedora
> currently ships the old zope.interface (3.0) which seems to be too old
> for zope.schema 3.4.
>
> I built RPM packages for myself but thought about submitting these to
> Fedora. Therefore I have an undefined set of applications possible using
> zope.interface 3.0 (and relying on this version). Even if my custom
> application has a very good unit test coverage, this does not help the
> Fedora Project.
>
> On the other hand if there was a commitment to a stable (downwards
> compatible) API in 3.x, I think it would be much easier to get my RPMs
> into Fedora.


Use buildout or virtualenv and don't care about your package restrictions.

-aj
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