[ZF] Thoughts about the process

[Benji York]

Jeff Rush wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
>> I haven't been paying much attention to how Zope 3 is
>> released lately, but the last time I looked, it was in the form of a big
>> tarball.  It would be great if instead it was released as a metapackage
>> that caused all distributions it depended on to be installed when it was.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea, but doesn't this approach make Zope more dependent on
> the Cheeseshop, in general? 

Only for human discovery of packages.  Jim has put together a system to 
mirror the cheeseshop that works quite well.  I never notice PyPI 
outages any more.
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation