[Zope3-dev] Re: Known working sets II [was: Eggification redux]

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

> I think that replacing 'index_url' with a "gated community" of packages
> is the only path to sanity here:  the contract of the Cheeseshop (share
> new releases of all packages with everyone ASAP") is incompatible with
> our goals ("ensure that users can install a given package and its
> dependencies, and have them work").

Why don't you think it can be solved by having packages themselves
state preferred versions? The cheeseshop can be a festering pool of
madness, as long as the packages I pull from it have reasonable
preferred versions, I should be fine, right?

Regards,

Martijn