[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: Zope3/trunk/ Add DEPENDENCIES.cfg for zope.testbrowser and tell zpkgtools where to find them.

[Gary Poster]

On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Friday 04 November 2005 09:26, Gary Poster wrote:
>> On Nov 4, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:
>>> Ahhh, I knew I hada  bad feeling when Gary checked those things
>>> into the
>>> trunk. At this stage I do not want the build process to be broken!
>>> Unless
>>> someone else is going to move those modules back into testbrowser,
>>> I will do
>>> this today. I cannot rely on Philipp getting his work done to make
>>> releases.
>>
>> Hm.  Isn't this a bit early to worry about?  Certainly you're the one
>> who has to answer that, as the release manager, but it seems
>> premature to me.
>
> No, this is never too early. In fact, I really want the build  
> process never to
> be broken. Even if this is arguable, we are planning 3.2 beta 1 for  
> this
> weekend, so it is definitely not premature.

OK, I buy the last part at the very least.

>> That said, I'll check around here to see if anyone knows the status
>> of the zpkg changes; I'm sure Fred does.
>
> That would be great.

Fred said that Philipp is not done.

>> Also, if we do move them back into testbrowser, we're going to have
>> to send another patch to the maintainer, after running the external
>> tests: one of the packages, I forget which, no longer works with the
>> sys.modules hack because the package's __init__ expects to find its
>> contents (already) in the proper place.
>
> I see. So based on Fred's answer I would really like you to move those
> packages back into testbrowser.

OK, I'll fit that in.

FWIW, on another topic in the same vein, I'd really like someone to  
rip out the __annotations__ on the request.  I suppose if no one  
steps up to do that then I'll do that too.

Gary