[Zope3-dev] Some thoughts for future releases of Zope 3

[Baiju M]

Christian Theune wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Am Freitag, den 23.03.2007, 14:00 +0530 schrieb Baiju M:
>  
>
>>For 3.4.0 all individual packages will be having a unique version
>>number (3.4.0), but this won't be the case for 3.5.0, in Zope 3.5.0
>>zope.interface may be still in 3.4.0 version.
>>
>>In PyPI we will put all latest stable releases of individual packages,
>>so a package in PyPI may be a newer version compared to the latest
>>Zope 3 release.  Then, to install a particular Zope 3 release, user
>>should always use download.zope.org as eggs location
>>(--find-links option in easy_install or zc.buildout).
>>    
>>
>
>I think we can have a meta-package for "the Zope application" that
>defines a dependency for all packages, some of those might still be
>3.4.0 whilst others might be 3.5.1 etc. I don't think we really need the
>download areas to gather the eggs.
>  
>
I think putting all eggs in one place for each release will be useful 
for those who make
offline installation/deploy.  So they can easily make use the 
'download-cache' and 'install-from-cache'
options of zc.buildout without any hurdle.

Regards,
Baiju  M