[Zope-dev] zope-2.9 r40780 make install doesn't finish, files missing from bin

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> I'll note that, as a developer, I have never done this and probably
> never would want to do this.

How do you test 'mkzopeinstance' then? Build a release first? That's 
rather cumbersome. Anyway, small point.

> The only use case for this is a deployer of Zope that wants to install an
> unreleased revision of Zope.  If this use case is driving this, a better
> solution might be to build automatic snapshot releases.

I want to be able to work in zope instances, no matter what version of 
zope, released or unreleased, I'm dealing with. I don't see how I should 
do this right now.

I think there's a broader use case than this, however:

I think it's important to make the transition between the repository 
world and the released version world as small as possible. This is an 
expectation that people have from other projects, and in my opinion Zope 
should strive to let that expectation work for Zope. Zope may have 
special distribution requirements indeed, but are they special enough to 
raise the barrier for people who want to become developers?

I realize that there is more than one distribution from the same 
repository, but if we just stick to the philosophy that there's one 
'default' experience that you get when you use an svn checkout, then it 
makes sense for that experience to be as similar to a Zope 2 release 
tarball as possible.

Regards,

Martijn