[Zope-dev] Some tools from the Launchpad project

[Gary Poster]

Hi all.

As announced elsewhere (and described in https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing) 
, Canonical's Launchpad project is working towards open-sourcing the  
majority of the code base by this summer.

Prior and subsequent to the "grand open-sourcing" date, the Launchpad  
developers are encouraged to abstract stand-alone code for  
distributions.  Since Launchpad uses several Zope libraries, some of  
the stand-alone packages may be of special interest to the Zope  
community.

Unsurprisingly (at least if you know Launchpad), the packages use bzr  
for revision control, and Launchpad for codehosting, bug tracking, and  
so on.

Currently we are standardizing on zc.buildout-based releases for these  
packages.

We have two at the moment:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lazr.delegates

     Provides an interesting Python delegation pattern.  Uses  
zope.interface.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lazr.config

     Helps build a configuration system (of whatever, but used here  
for process configuration).

I'm not the author, just a messenger and liaison (and the guy who made  
the distros, in this case).  (I did add some cookie conveniences to  
testbrowser recenty though--check out zope.testbrowser 1.6a1 if you  
want a look. :-)

I, or other folks, will hopefully get a chance to send out other  
announcements of this sort in the future!

Gary