[Zope3-dev] [URGENT] Organising the satellite projects, eggs and version numbers before beta today

[Jim Fulton]

On May 3, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Christian Theune wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 08:59 -0400 schrieb Fred Drake:
>> On 5/3/07, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
>>> In a small side note: I still don't know how we recommend using  
>>> the eggs
>>> in a way that says "I want the egg-version of Zope 3.4.0" and the  
>>> users
>>> gets those eggs (and only those) that are synchronised satellites  
>>> and
>>> have "3.4.0" as their version number.
>>
>> I don't think we've defined what "the egg-version of Zope 3.4.0"  
>> means
>> (nor do I think we need to as part of a classic zpkg-based Zope
>> 3.4.0).
>>
>> The 'and have "3.4.0" as their version number' I consider a non-goal.
>>
>>> Maybe a meta-egg that would introduce the dependency of  
>>> "zope.xx==3.4.0"
>>> as their dependency would allow that to happen because if this gets
>>> involved in a working set then the synchronized satellites would be
>>> restricted to the exact version.
>>
>> Are you suggesting the satellites would have this dependency?  If so,
>> -1.  If not, and this is just used as a way of collecting the eggs, I
>> think this isn't valuable, and hence is a decoy.
>
> I might have stated my goals the wrong way. I find it valuable to be
> able to predict which exact versions of things "get pulled in" from a
> buildout.
>
> The current way that dependencies are declared is that when I run
> buildout in a year I'll get the zope.app.publication-3.5dev-r122 egg
> on a stable application. I don't want that. I want to again and again
> and again get the 3.4 egg of zope.app.publication because those eggs
> where tested together.
>
> OTOH. I'm just remembering that Jim talked about some `freeze` feature
> for buildout ... is that what I seem to want to tackle this issue? ;)

Maybe:

http://www.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/1.0.0b23#repeatable-buildouts- 
controlling-eggs-used

Jim

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