[Zope-dev] Re: Product version number redundancy with version.txt and setup.py
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:44:43 -0700, Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote: Tim Hicks wrote: Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and version.txt? Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you don't want to update two places. I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent registry of installed products and any information about them at all anymore? ZClasses Speaking of which, are there plans to rip out ZClasses from Zope 2.12? It's about time! -- Alexander Limi ยท http://limi.net ___ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
[Zope-dev] Re: Product version number redundancy with version.txt and setup.py
Tim Hicks wrote: Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and version.txt? Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you don't want to update two places. I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent registry of installed products and any information about them at all anymore? Having the product registry persistent causes quite some trouble when moving Data.fs across servers and doesn't seem to add much to any benefit. For what kind of use-case do people use that registry nowadays, since we got rid of persistent products? Hanno ___ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Product version number redundancy with version.txt and setup.py
Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote: Tim Hicks wrote: Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and version.txt? Having your setup.py read its version from version.txt is easy, if you don't want to update two places. I think the more interesting question is, why we need a persistent registry of installed products and any information about them at all anymore? ZClasses Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. ___ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
