[Zope3-dev] Re: Packaging pre-proposal/notes

[Jim Fulton]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> I've collected some goals and other notes in the form of a preproposal
>> on packaging:
>>
>>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/Zope3PackagingProposal
>>
>> Comments, here and in the wiki are appreciated.  I'd like to agree
>> on goals that form a basis for additional work
>>
>> Jim
> 
> 
> Jim, how do you see this fitting into the 1.0 release of X3?

I don't know yet.  We are still talking about what "this" is. :)

> My general feedback is that this is a very ambitious vision. My vote 
> would be to stay clear of anything fancy (i.e. mods to distutils, etc.) 
> until we have seen X3 in the field and can solve some more concrete 
> problems. For X3 1.0, I think we should create standard distributions 
> (RPM, Debian, source/distutils, etc.) that are as simple as possible.

I assume we can do an X3.0 release without solving the packaging problem,
but I think we want this sooner rather than later.  My motivation for wanting
to talk about this now is, in part that software layout debate. In particular,
I don't want to use the CVS repository layout as my packaging tool.

Jim

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