[Zope-dev] version pinning on tags

[Benji York]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Stephan Richter
<srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 April 2010, Baiju M wrote:
>> > +1 to use a KGS. ZTK or BB depending on what the dependencies are.
>>
>> Since normally we don't pin versions in trunk, I guess we need to
>> do the pinning in maintenance branches.  Otherwise we can
>> keep the version pinning in trunk, but comment the "versions" option.
>> Then, just before going for release, uncomment it.
>> This will become one more step in creating releases:
>> http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/process/releasing-software.html
>
> Why not leave it always pinned? This way the pinning gets transferred to the
> branch/tag automatically.

+1

Nailing versions on the trunk means that the trunk is always functional
and the result of building the trunk doesn't depend on what versions
were available when you built it (as Adam mentioned).
-- 
Benji York