[Zope3-dev] Zope egg dependencies and tests

[Christian Zagrodnick]

Hi there,

now there those wonderful eggs for Zope 3. Apart from the permission 
problem we ran into lately there is another one with those eggs:

The dependencies aren't set right.

Apparently nobody every ran the tests of those eggs. This is no wonder. 
When developing you need to checkout Zope 3 instead of the egg source. 
The Zope 3 tests would pass of course since everything is in place 
there.

I think we should move the actual code to the eggs as soon as possible 
and put the externals into the Zope 3 source. Otherwise nobody ever 
will run the egg tests.

Also we need to take care of depending on certain versions. For 
instance zope.location required a recent version of zope.proxy (>3.3). 
And it's definitely better to say "I need >3.3 but can't find it" 
during buildout than "zope.proxy has no module named decorator" 
somewhere when starting the application.

So, how do we get out of this? :)

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Christian Zagrodnick

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