[Zope-PAS] Re: Eggification redux

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:40 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 
>> Charlie Clark wrote:
>>> Am 25.09.2007 um 02:05 schrieb Tres Seaver:
>>>> I'd like to break the remaining CMF packages out (moving from '/ 
>>>> CMF' to
>>>> 'Products.CMFCore', 'Products.CMFDefault', etc.) and push the  
>>>> 2.1.0 eggs
>>>> out, as well as equivalent changes for PluggableAuthService and
>>>> PluginRegistry.
>>>>
>>>> Any objections, or other thoughts?
>>> While I am very sceptical about the move to eggs (I know it's  
>>> inevitable) and I hope we can avoid some of the problems that seem  
>>> to be affecting Grok as a result.
>> Grok's problems are primarily related to the lack of a working set  
>> definition for Zope 3.
> 
> I don't know what you mean by this.

This is the "known good" problem.  I'm pretty convinced that adding some
kind of "PyPI subset", where gardeners for a given "package set" keep
the list of packages / versions known to work well together, is the only
way out of this issue.  E.g., a URL like:

  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/release/zope3.4

would be usable as an 'index-url' for setuptools:  when used this way,
setuptools would only find / install eggs from the "gardened" set,
rather than whatever anyone happened to have uploaded that day.

If PyPI can't be tweaked to provide such a feature, we may need to come
up with some kind of mirroring scheme which does allow it.



Tres.
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