[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.dottedname doesn't have a CHANGES.txt (again?)

[Tres Seaver]

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Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Stephan Richter <srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
>> I want tools! Actually, I just want one tool. 70% of the release process is
>> repetition and that needs to be factored into a tool. This tool should have
>> been written before the Zope trunk was blown into pieces, but it wasn't. :-(
> 
> I'd recommend fixing bundleman to be able to support making eggs.
> Bundleman will look at the changes, suggest versions out of that,
> refuse to release if there are no changes set, create the tag and make
> the release from the tag.
> 
> It's written in Python, in clear and understandable code by eminent
> programmer Benoit Delbosc (of funkload fame).
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/ye8dsk
> 
> It currently only makes releases as tgz, but adding eggs should be so
> hard (it's done by calling setup.py anyway if I remember correctly).

I would prefer that we quit releasing non-source distributions at all;
the exceptions would be Windows eggs for packages containing extensions.
 Any binary egg for Linux is a disaster waiting to happen:  setuptools
will happily install it into a Python which has incompatible compilation
options (UCS4 vs UCS2, for instance).  AFAIK, the Mac toolchain, like
the Linux one, is happy to create locally-installable binary eggs from
the sdist versions.


Tres.
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