[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: Zope3/branches/3.2/ - Declare the zope top-level package as a namespace package if

Brian Sutherland jinty at web.de
Thu Jan 26 09:42:32 EST 2006


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:50:29AM -0200, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:37:45PM -0200, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> | On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
> | | Please revert this revision. As you admit yourself in CHANGES.txt, this is a 
> | | new feature. You cannot add new features to a dot release branch.
> | 
> | Well, I would go as far as calling it a bugfix. Will revert it then we
> | can discuss.
> 
> Sorry, I've removed some context from this email, so I guess nobody
> understood what it is about.
> 
> I had added a call to pkg_resource.declare_namespace() to Zope 3's
> zope/__init__.py, which enables one to have sub packages of 'zope'
> distributed as eggs.
> 
> Stephan complained that this is not a 'bugfix' but a 'new feature' and
> asked me to revert, which I promptly did.
> 
> I suspect that no new Zope 3.2.x release will come out soon anyway, so
> maybe it doesn't make sense to add it there really, but it would be
> really nice to have this feature available before the 3.3 release.
> 
> Does anybody care about using eggs with Zope 3.2?

I care about not adding this functionality in a stable release as I am
totally unsure of how it will affect the Debian packaging of Zope.

Debian packaging and eggs do not see eye to eye sometimes.

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