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

[Chris McDonough]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 06:11, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> This is an important point: The CVS repository layout *is* the packaging 
> system *for developers*.

It needn't be.  I think it would be reasonable to ask developers to run
an install script just like end users.  Maybe in the case of developers
it creates symlinks instead of copying.