[Zope-dev] [Zope 2.12] Packaging weakness

[Andreas Jung]

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On 15.03.2009 18:37 Uhr, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote at 2009-3-15 08:56 +0100:
>> ...
>> On 15.03.2009 8:36 Uhr, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>>> The documentation on "PyPI" tells to look into "doc/INSTALL.txt"
>>> to find installation instructions.
>>>
>>> However, "doc" is not installed by the standard "easy_install" process.
>>> Therefore, it is not so easy to find it.
>>> Relevant documentation should be installed by the standard "easy_install"
>>> process (it should be part of the installed egg).
>>>
>> All related docs are available from our new place:
>>
>> http://docs.zope.org/
> 
> Hint: then the "PyPI" page should get considerable overhaul:
> 
>   *  It should point to "http://docs.zope.org".
>      Instead, it currently points to "http://www.zope.org/Documentation/"
>      where no current installation instructions can be found
> 
>   *  It should indicate that unlike natural expectation, the packagers
>      of the Zope2 egg decided to put the installation instructions
>      not into the eggs but instead on the internet.
>      And as this is a new place, a link there would be appropriate.

This is already fixed long ago in the README.txt in SVN.

> 
>   *  Maybe, it should warn people agaist "easy_install"ing "Zope2" -- as
>      the developers did not yet care much about this distribution way
>      and the installed egg may not work.

We are at alpha 1. You're smart enough in order to deal with an Zope 2
alpha release and all other people interested in a Zope 2.12
release also know how to work with the current code base (you know, the
our circles).

Andreas

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