Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jun 27, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Gary Poster wrote: On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:30 AM, Bernd Dorn wrote: On 26.06.2007, at 21:44, Gary Poster wrote: On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Bernd Dorn wrote: i think as long the package has a dev dependency like ZODB 3.9 it should at least have alpha or beta

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-07-02 Thread Gary Poster
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: Thanks for reply. quick notes: I think that in *technically* depending on a newer version introduces a backward incompatibility. (It's like strengthening a precondition of a method.) This is especially a problem if people are specifying

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-07-02 Thread Benji York
Gary Poster wrote: In that case, would what I released (except that I used -dev rather than dev) be correct? Yep. And those that only want final releases would be required to say so when invoking setuptools (or buildout). -- Benji York Senior Software Engineer Zope Corporation

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jul 2, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Gary Poster wrote: ... Bernd has suggested a policy that I think we should adopt, which is that a package's release status should be no higher than the status of it's dependencies. So, for example, if A depends on a dev version of B, then the version of A that

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-06-27 Thread Bernd Dorn
On 26.06.2007, at 21:44, Gary Poster wrote: On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Bernd Dorn wrote: On 23.06.2007, at 12:38, Christian Theune wrote: Am Samstag, den 23.06.2007, 07:04 -0400 schrieb Gary Poster: Hey Christian. I intend to check in some code that fixes zope.app.keyreference

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-06-27 Thread Gary Poster
On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:30 AM, Bernd Dorn wrote: On 26.06.2007, at 21:44, Gary Poster wrote: On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Bernd Dorn wrote: i think as long the package has a dev dependency like ZODB 3.9 it should at least have alpha or beta status Hi Bernd. Why? because it pulls in

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-06-27 Thread Christian Theune
Am Mittwoch, den 27.06.2007, 11:36 -0400 schrieb Gary Poster: My current opinion is that version numbers are the best solution of a bad lot. My current opinion is that we don't have a final story on how all the pieces we have now: multiple eggs with seperate lives, buildout, setuptools,

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-06-26 Thread Bernd Dorn
On 23.06.2007, at 12:38, Christian Theune wrote: Am Samstag, den 23.06.2007, 07:04 -0400 schrieb Gary Poster: Hey Christian. I intend to check in some code that fixes zope.app.keyreference conflict error issues I wrote about last week. This will take advantage of some code that I checked in

Re: [Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-06-23 Thread Christian Theune
Am Samstag, den 23.06.2007, 07:04 -0400 schrieb Gary Poster: Hey Christian. I intend to check in some code that fixes zope.app.keyreference conflict error issues I wrote about last week. This will take advantage of some code that I checked in to the ZODB, that I don't intend to be part

[Zope3-dev] package branches

2007-06-23 Thread Gary Poster
Hey Christian. I intend to check in some code that fixes zope.app.keyreference conflict error issues I wrote about last week. This will take advantage of some code that I checked in to the ZODB, that I don't intend to be part of ZODB 3.8--so I don't intend my zope.app.keyreference