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

[Martijn Faassen]

Chris McDonough wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 06:11, Martijn Faassen wrote:
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>This is an important point: The CVS repository layout *is* the packaging 
>system *for developers*.
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>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.
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I must've been very unclear about the idea that you're developing a 
product yourself. Are we so focused on developing in the Zope 3 tree 
that we lost the concept of actually developing packages outside it? My 
point is that I don't want to have to create foo and foo_browser in my 
CVS repository if I'm creating the package 'foo'. In this scenario I 
have nothing to do with the Zope 3 core development.

It's not unnatural for me to want to run directly from my CVS checkout, 
and it's not unnatural that I want to branch and tag *everything* in it, 
including UI components, in one go. Or update it with a single cvs 
update, not in two separate modules.

Regards,

Martijn