[Zope-dev] [Zope 2.12] Eggification of Zope 2 - pros and cons?

[Andreas Jung]

Hi,

during the latest 'zope.publisher' thread on zope-dev I came up with
the proposal to eggify the Zope core for the Zope 2.12 release. I would 
like to start a discussion about the pros and cons, risks and advantages of 
any eggification effort.

Chris favors a 'big' Zope egg with some dependencies (like ZODB) stripped 
out. I would prefer a more broader approach. One of the reasons are 
company-internals modifications to the Zope core. Right now we maintain a 
more or less heavy modified version of Zope 2.8 in our repos (making Zope 
upgrades
pretty hard). A better modularization would help us here. Another example:
the Plone people maintained a Zope 2.10 branch with experimental ZODB blob 
support. With an eggified version of ZODB you could easily switch the eggs 
(easily spoken).

So before promoting the eggification as an ultimate goal, let's discuss 
what we really need and want. A complete eggification just for the sake of 
eggs is possibly not the goal :-)

Andreas


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