[Zope-dev] version pinning on tags

[Adam GROSZER]

Hello Tres,

Thursday, April 29, 2010, 4:05:36 PM, you wrote:

TS> Stephan Richter 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.

TS> - -1.  Trunk development should not be hindered by the need to maintain a
TS> KGS of some sort.  Testing the trunk against a given KGS should be a
TS> separate step from testing against "current" releases.

You could "extends=" some sort of KGS, then override some versions
locally.

It's just crazy that you buildout friday, test, all tests pass.
You buildout monday, test, failures... because some versions moved.


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