[Zope-dev] can these wrong DEPENDENCIES.cfg files be removed?

[Jim Fulton]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Fred Drake wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Dan Korostelev <nadako at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> AFAIK, these files are for (pre-egg, no-longer-used) zpkg tool. They
>>> are removed in zope.app.renderer's trunk, BTW.
>>
>> I certainly hope no one is relying on that old tools!
>
> I care about those files in Zope3/ and ZODB3/, since they are used  
> to create
> the Zope 3 tar ball. Remember, Zope 3.4 will be the *first* release  
> where we
> officially introduce eggs. And I have heard from a lot of people  
> that would
> like to see a couple more TAR ball releases. I have a script to  
> update the
> Zope3/ tree, so it is fairly easy for me to fulfill that request.

What do people want from a tar release.  Wouldn't their needs be  
adequately met by a source release made with zc.sourcerelease?

Jim


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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation