On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:00, Jim Fulton wrote: > > I feel like an old record, but please > > > let's keep the development process as simple as possible. I rather make > > some concessions to the packaging and dependency system than spending > > more time developing. > > Perhaps our goals are different. I want Zope's packages to be usable > outside of Zope. I also want to make it easier to use external packages. > I think that a more package-centric development methodoligy will make > achieving these goals much easier. I also think it will make Zope releases > go smoother because the scope of the release will be narrower. Someday, > A Zope release will include an app-server specific core and a collection of > other package releases. To the extend that those packages have their own > lifeccyles, and quality control, the amount of newly released code in a > Zope release wil be smaller. A package-based approach will also make it > easier to release less. We'll be freed from a "batteries included" > mentality that encourages large high-risk releases. And it will make it > easier for people to make custom releases that have configurations targeted > to specific needs.
I think we do have different goals here. I would agree with that approach, if we would have a large community where small groups take over the maintenance and development of a package. But that's not the case and it will not change any time soon, I think. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ 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 )
