AW: [Zope3-dev] Release for Views As Adapters

[Stephan Richter]

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 09:43, dev at projekt01.ch wrote:
> > The trunk should not be used as a collector for packages that
> > are supposed to
> > be compatible with the releases. One major mistake we did for
> > the X3.0 branch
> > was that we removed all packages that are not part of the
> > release, which
> > makes it hard to release branch-compatible packages
> > separately, such as ZWiki
> > or the Bug Tracker application. So we will have to use
> > separate branches for
> > them. Phillip and I are planning to release the following
> > packages for Zope
> > X3.0: zope.app.workflow, zwiki, bugtracker, and psycopgda.
>
> That's exactly the problem. Your solution is a option.
> This makes the release process of some package independent
> of the z3 application server.

However, note that any non-distributed package is subject to change and you 
cannot expect backward-compatibility for it! This includes zope.app.workflow. 
the issue is not as bad for end-user applications, like ZWiki and the Bug 
Tracker, since most likely no other application will build on it.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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