[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-Users] Visionaire! (All your problems, solved)

[Chris McDonough]

On Mar 1, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:

> Chris McDonough wrote:
>> [...]  the process of  identifying
>> dependencies and eliminating the silly ones is the  valuable work  
>> here, and it seems to be getting done by embracing egg  packaging,  
>> which is really wonderful.
>
> Such a gushing endorsement!  Now I feel guilty for not having tried  
> eggs yet.

Heh.  Actually when I used the adjectival prepositional phrase "which  
is really wonderful", I meant to refer to the "valuable work" and not  
"egg packaging".  I really should have said "the valuable work of  
identifying dependencies is really wonderful, and it seems to be  
getting done by embracing egg packaging".  Eggs are pretty wonderful  
too, but the dependency identification and nominal enforcement by  
making packages buildable outside of the natural SVN tree is really  
the important bit for us.

>
> <excuse>
> <offtopic>
> Portage does packaging so well that I have to remind myself that  
> other people still have packaging problems. ;-)  Unfortunately,  
> Portage is an all-or-nothing solution.
> </offtopic>
> </excuse>

Eggs are the shiny new driver (due to a way to specify dependencies  
and automatic dependency resolution via easy_install) but no matter  
which packaging system we use, I'm very happy that we're doing the  
work of splitting things into smaller bits.  I believe it might give  
Zope a new lease on life.

- C