On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 00:40, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > Personally, I just have not had time to learn how to build Debian
> > > packages. (It is probably easier than I imagine.)
> > It is not technically difficult, just politically. <g>
> I hope my previous mail proved you wrong here.  If not I can't help ...

Andreas,

Thank you for the 10,000 ft. view of all those documents.  That summary
is much appreciated.

While some may think this is off-topic I hope they bear with me here
because I think it is very much on topic discussion of using existing
building blocks to create open source applications.

The specific issue with TORCH still remains that we disagree because I
say it is not a technical issue because there is no interaction
(therefore no conflict) between the Zope packages I put together and any
others on a Debian system.  I just happen to be using open source
building blocks that are of different version numbers. While your
viewpoint seems to be that it is difficult to maintain the Zope, Plone,
other Products that I use as a separate package.  I say this is what
gives me the control and stability that I need to be confident in my
foundation.

I don't have to wait for a new version to be added to the Debian
distribution nor do I worry that a new version of a product will be
added that causes a conflict with my application. I don't view TORCH2 as
a plug-in Zope Product. TORCH2 is a compilation of all that code
together.

Cheers,
Tim

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