[Zope-dev] Zope 2.13 - next steps

[Tres Seaver]

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Jonas Meurer wrote:
> hey,
> 
> On 12/06/2010 Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> What do we have in Zope 2.13:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Comments, suggestions, more work you'd like to get into 2.13?
> 
> another build system would be magnificent :-)
> 
> the new build system in zope2.12 makes it hard/impossible to distribute
> zope2 binaries within linux/*bsd/hurd/... distributions. so far no
> distribution i know contains zope2.12, and the most obvious reason is
> the new build system.
> 
> thus i suggest to either provide monolithic tarballs which do contain
> the debendencies, or change release policy for the dependencies to not
> break backwards compability with every minor release.

Maintaining the mechoanism to release that monolithic tarball is not on
anybody's plate at the moment.  At the point that somebody does the work
to make it painlessly automated, then we can ask the release manager to
include that task in the release process.

Until somebody does that work, this item is effectively tabled.


Tres.
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