[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Known working sets

2007-09-06 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Fulton wrote: > On Sep 6, 2007, at 4:02 AM, Chris Withers wrote: > >> Martin Aspeli wrote: >> Jim Fulton wrote: >>> I'm very much against making setuptools *more* complicated >>> than it already is. >> Indeed, but surely managing

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Known working sets

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 6, 2007, at 4:02 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Martin Aspeli wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I'm very much against making setuptools *more* complicated than it already is. Indeed, but surely managing "known good" sets of components comes under its remit of version management? Sure. It does th

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Known working sets

2007-09-06 Thread Fred Drake
On 9/6/07, Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, and this was the reason for my original question to Jim: why do > something in zc.buildout rather than fixing the problems with setuptools? It's not at all clear to me that this suggests there's actually a problem with setuptools. The des

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Known working sets

2007-09-06 Thread Chris Withers
Martin Aspeli wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I'm very much against making setuptools *more* complicated than it already is. Indeed, but surely managing "known good" sets of components comes under its remit of version management? Sure. It does this via requirements. Ok, forgive me for being dumb t

[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Known working sets

2007-09-06 Thread Martin Aspeli
Chris Withers wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I'm very much against making setuptools *more* complicated than it already is. Indeed, but surely managing "known good" sets of components comes under its remit of version management?

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Known working sets

2007-09-06 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I'm very much against making setuptools *more* complicated than it already is. Indeed, but surely managing "known good" sets of components comes under its remit of version management? Sure. It does thi