[Zope3-dev] Zope 3.4 release

[Baiju M]

Christian Theune wrote:

>Hi,
>
>we (Jim, Nathan, Michael and me) did some planning on how we're going to
>release Zope 3.4 and the future Zope 3 releases that are based on eggs.
>
>I tried to catch up and did my writing here:
>http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/DefiningZope34Release
>
>There is also a project in the repository in Zope3.buildout that tries
>to implement the proposal and is a work in progress that doesn't work
>right now.
>  
>

I think we need not to mimic the zpkg based release for 3.4, rather we 
should use zpkg for this release also.
Because,
  - there is no particular advantage for mimicking zpkg based release 
using zc.buildout
  - we are gradually moving towards an egg based releases
  - applications are better to build using zc.buildout
  - our 3.4 alpha 1 release date is approaching, we follow time-based 
release !
    (And our policy is to drop a feature, if it's not ready at time, is it?)

In addition to this zpkg based release, we can release all eggs (as 
mentioned in the proposal) and make it
available for download from a location.

I think we are going to stop current way of releasing Zope 3 sooner or 
later,  so we should advocate the use of
eggs and zc.buildout for building and deploying Zope 3 applications.

Regards,
Baiju M