[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Known working sets

[Martin Aspeli]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>> I'm very much against making setuptools *more* complicated than it 
>>>> already is.
>>> Indeed, but surely managing "known good" sets of components comes 
>>> under its remit of version management?
>> Sure.  It does this via requirements.
> 
> Ok, forgive me for being dumb then, but why are we looking to add 
> similar to zc.buildout?

We're talking more about a general pattern in zc.buildout. The 
deficiencies of using setup.py for this alone are described well in the 
original proposal.

Martin

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