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

[Dieter Maurer]

Andreas Jung wrote at 2008-3-24 09:00 +0100:
> ...
>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.

I object that upgrades are "pretty hard" and I doubt that modularization
would help in any way:

  Upgrades are hard only when local modifications and global
  ones interfere.

  This does not happen too often and how often it happens is
  independent from the modularization.



-- 
Dieter