[Zope3-dev] Re: tracking satellite project's trunks

[Fred Drake]

On 5/3/07, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> When a truly egg-based Zope3 ships, it should be a meta-egg with
> explicitly-versioned dependencies.

That seems right to me.

> Approximating that in tree would be to have the Zope3 tree point at
> *tagged releases* of the satellite projects;  revision-stamped versions
> are a poor (but acceptable in the near-term) substitute.

That sounds reasonable to me.

> Tracking the
> trunk of any dependency is not acceptable:  it undoes the reason for
> moving the projects out-of-tree in the first place.  If we aren't going
> to do release management on the pieces, then for sanity's sake keep them
> in-tree.

Again, that sounds reasonable to me, but since I've disclaimed caring
about the Zope 3 conglomerate checkout/release, I'll not push my
thoughts on that on those who do.  You're certainly welcome to make
the right decision on your own.  ;-)


  -Fred

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