[Zope3-dev] Re: Dealing with external dependencies

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 19 Jul 2007, at 20:12 , Jim Fulton wrote:
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> On Jul 19, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
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>> On 19 Jul 2007, at 00:43 , Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> On Jul 18, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Up until now we've been a bit sloppy when it came to egg  
>>>> dependencies. Not specifying a version number or range basically  
>>>> means that the code in question assumes it will work with any  
>>>> future version of its dependency. Admittedly, setuptools doesn't  
>>>> exactly make it easy to say "I depend on ZODB 3.8.x". Jim has  
>>>> proposed to add a syntax to setuptools to support this nicely  
>>>> but it's not there yet. So I guess we'll have to wait for that.
>>>
>>> Heads up: I've come to think that depending on major revisions/ 
>>> series isn't going to work.  I'll say more about that in a  
>>> separate thread though.
>>
>> Now you tell us :).
>
> I just realized this over the weekend and even then wanted to  
> discuss it with some folks.

Fair enough.

>>
>> Should the next zope.testbrowser simply depend on any version of  
>> mechanize and ClientForm?
>
> I hope so. :)

Ok. Adam, those seem like clear instructions :).