[Zope-PAS] PAS 1.5.3 Released

[Tres Seaver]

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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>> Previously Tres Seaver wrote:
>>>> I've just pushed PAS 1.5.3 to www.zope.org and the cheeseshop.  Would
>>>> the folks who depend on automated downloads from either of those sites
>>>> please check that I didn't break anything?
>>> The www.zope.org release contains an egg, not a product.
>> That is a "source distribution", strictly speaking.
>>
>>> For Plone 3.0
>>> we still need the product version. I have put a corrected .tar.gz on
>>> http://dist.plone.org/PluggableAuthService-1.5.3.tar.gz .
>> Can you guys adjust your buildout to use the "source distribution"
>> format?  (basically, copying / symlinking the entry from
>> 'Products/PluggableAuthService' rather than the root)?  We'd really like
>> to avoid having to make more than one release of the thing.  Getting it
>> from the cheeseshop would be ideal, as well.
> 
> buildouts, sure. However Plone 3.0 releases are not always buildout based: 
> there is a large installed base who do not use buildout but use plain Zope 
> instances and rely on a Plone tarball which contains everything unpacked. 
> The most popupar way by far to install by Plone is the Windows installer, 
> which is not buildout based. All the tools to create that tarball and the 
> current installres assume that we either have an egg or a plain product release.

The source dist is trivially convertible to an egg (easy_install does
that on the fly).  I can't see any reason for releasing actual eggs,
rather than source distributions, with the minor exception of packages
which contain C extentions:  those packages should probably release
Windows eggs, just because of the tool-poverty of Windows users.


Tres.
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