[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.annotation egg

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> The dependencies of the zope.annotation egg have been commented out 
> yesterday:
> http://svn.zope.org/zope.annotation/trunk/setup.py?rev=72691&view=log
> 
> Do you know the reason for this ?

I wish I did. The log message is pretty useless, unfortunately. I can 
only urge committers to answer the "Why" in their log messages, not 
(only) the "What". Most of us who read the commit messages understand 
the "What", but not always the "Why". That's what log messages are for...

> A second question on the topic: i am trying to use zope.annotation 
> outside zope app server - so far without success (problems starting at 
> the zope.app.container.contained dependency).
> 
> Can you confirm it is possible without writing my own 
> IAttributeAnnotatable implementation ?

Well, we've got plans to make zope.app a namespace package as well and 
distribute pretty much independent packages like zope.app.container as 
independent eggs. I hope that this will somewhat alleviate your problem, 
though perhaps zope.annotation's dependency on zope.app.container should 
be made optional as well.


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