[Zope3-dev] zc.buildout and develop-eggs

[Jim Fulton]

On May 2, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Michael Howitz wrote:

> Am 02.05.2007 um 15:12 schrieb Jim Fulton:
>> Assuming that you have a checkout of the trunk zc.form, then you  
>> are mistaken. The version number in the setup.py file:
>>
>>   http://svn.zope.org/zc.form/trunk/setup.py?view=auto
>>
>> is 0.1dev.  This is before 0.1dev-r74753 and thus doesn't satisfy  
>> the requirement zc.form>=0.1dev-r74753.
>>
>> If you aren't using the trunk of zc.form, you should share what  
>> version you are using.
>
> I'm using the trunk of zc.form. So I thought the trunk should be  
> counted as newer as each snapshot release.

You thought wrong.

> So the expectation that develop eggs are used when ty are declared  
> seems to be wrong.

Right.

> But then the only way to use develop eggs and declare egg versions  
> in dependencies is to have a always a higher version in svn trunk  
> than each existing snapshot release.

Or to declare your requirements more carefully.

The only way to use develop eggs is to make sure that they satisfy  
any requirements you provide.

> I don't think this is so good.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Jim

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