[Zope3-dev] Re: Rid the term 'product'

[Martijn Faassen]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> While that will be the common case, I'm not sure it's the only case.
>> For example, Plone 3 is likely to be much more than a single package. :)
> 
> 
> Why not?
> 
> (I can see it having lots of subpackages, but why more than one 
> top-level installable, dstributable thingy?)

While this is a good point, a large applicatin likely requires a number 
of dependencies which are distributable as packages onto themselves. 
These dependencies are not unique to this application, and thus should 
not be bundled.

Let's imagine for instance someone came up with a versioning system, 
that's used by Plone but also by Silva. This package is then a 
requirement of Plone that should not be distributed in the Plone package 
itself, but is part of a typical Plone distribution. The same would 
apply to Silva.

Regards,

Martijn