[ZODB-Dev] packaging zodb in eggs.

[Jim Fulton]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
>> Go go!
>>
>> I don't understand the eggs philosophy.  (I succeeded in missing the
>> eggs talk twice at PyCon.)  I don't think any of the pieces of ZODB
>> are very useful in isolation.  You can't use persistent without
>> transaction, and there isn't much that uses transaction other than
>> ZODB.  Same with BTrees, you can't use them without ZODB and they're
>> probably the most useful data structure in ZODB.
> 
> 
> I  think you put "transaction" in a separate package because it was  
> meant to be useful independent of ZODB.  There's no actual code in  
> persistent that depends on transaction save for the tests (although I  
> couldn't imagine using persistent without transaction, is there ever  a 
> case?).  Maybe the right packaging division is "transaction",  
> "ZConfig", and "everything else"?

Eventually, these packages should be untangled and packaged separately.
But that's more work than we want to do now.  I do think that persistent
will someday be useful outside of ZODB.  In which case, so would BTrees.

Jim

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