[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.error is a 3.5 egg, but is needed by 3.4.x releases

[Jim Fulton]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I have no idea about this specific move.  If there was a  
>> zope.app.error before, then distributions of it should still exist  
>> and new distributions should be backward compatible.
>>> zope.error 3.5 is needed by:
>>>   required by zope.app.applicationcontrol 3.4.1.
>>>   required by zope.app.appsetup 3.4.1.
>>>   required by zope.app.publication 3.4.2.
>> OK. I'm not sure what the issue is here.
>
> The issue is that the packages Martijn mentioned above as well as  
> zope.app.error were in 3.4.x beta mode. That means they were  
> stabilizing.
>
> Yet zope.app.error was split up into zope.error and zope.app.error  
> without releasing a zope.app.error 3.4.0 final first. The split up  
> should have been done entirely in the 3.5.x series, *after*  
> producing stable 3.4.0 releases.

Yup. I see. And the sin was compounded by making stable packages  
depend on the new unstable packages.  That is fairly key.  Thanks for  
explaining this.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation