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

[Chris Withers]

Martin Aspeli 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.

Yup, and this was the reason for my original question to Jim: why do 
something in zc.buildout rather than fixing the problems with setuptools?

Chris

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