[Zope3-dev] Re: Cleaning up dependencies for Zope 3.4 eggs

[Jim Fulton]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Fred Drake wrote:
>> On 4/5/07, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Since we almost eggified all packages under zope.app namespace,
>>> should we keep the all-in-one zope.app egg ?
>> I've been making it a point to not depend on the zope.app egg;
>> depending on it brings in things I don't want, and that's what we're
>> trying to get away from in the first place.
>
> Right. The current zope.app egg also includes never-ever released  
> things. It's simply the Zope3/src/zope/app directory from svn  
> (which still has some old, never used and probably dangerous stuff  
> in it).
>
>> I don't know that unpublishing the already-published versions is
>> needed; they can sit unused forever, and that won't break anything  
>> for
>> the people who choose to depend on it.
>
> Apart from the fact that we should clean out the Zope3/src/zope/app  
> directory in svn, we should also delete all traces of the zope.app  
> egg. As mentioned, it contains unreleased stuff and is therefore  
> not production or release material. Keeping it around would be  
> misleading.

+1

Jim

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