[Zope3-dev] Re: Known-good-sets problem

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Another point of feedback:

I saw Stephan's mail on a (partially new) toolchain and somewhat 
extensive workflow on using it. I'm a bit surprised a toolchain is 
necessary and that the workflow is so involved. With Grok's approach 
using extends in buildout, we can just publish such a list on a dumb 
website without any tools whatsoever.

Since you're effectively mirroring the cheeseshop anyway, why not rely 
on the cheeseshop entirely and just publish the version lists? Could 
someone point out the benefits of this approach over just publishing 
versions? The one I can think of is that you can potentially retain 
packages that were for some reason removed from the cheeseshop, but even 
that is theoretical right now, right? As far as I understand, the 
buildout versions list approach would allow one to combine lists 
together as well, a feature lacking in the current approach.

I'm glad to see the effort to run tests over the lists of packages. This 
was something missing from our Grok story and one that I was worried about.

Regards,

Martijn