[Zope3-dev] the maintenance of change logs

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Friday 22 September 2006 12:52, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> I hope we can move to a pattern where projects gain a homepage  
>> somewhere
>> on zope.org, including doctests and some other information, and the
>> cheeseshop is used for everything else (pointing to the homepage on
>> zope.org with the 'url' field in setup.py).
>
> Yep, me too. Sigh, I have to get to work again on the software site.

It could be argued that, given existing tools like pypi and  
launchpad, that we should focus on other things.

> Something that really disturbs me about the current setup info is  
> that the
> meta data lives in a Python call and not in a text file that makes  
> it very
> hard for other software to extract.

Well, with eggs, the meta data ends up in files that can be  
extracted.  You can always run setup to generate this information if  
you don't have an egg yet.

Jim

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