Chris McDonough wrote: > Given that this suggestion has been met with skepticism, let me try another > tact. Instead of thinking about it this way, could we think about it as > *deflating* the current set of zope.* packages that do not currently have a > meaningful life of their own into a single setuptools distribution named > "ZTK". > > This "ZTK" distribution would *not* include packages that already have a life > of > their own outside Zope such as zope.interface, zope.component, > zope.configuration, zope.proxy, ZODB, etc. These packages would continue to > have their own release cycles.
Yay! Big +1 from me... > Over time, we'd tease out the dependencies of packages that live in the ZTK > distribution, making them useful outside without any dependency on the ZTK. > The > names of these packages could be arbitrary (they wouldn't need to retain > their > old "zope.*" names). Some backwards dependency shims would be added to the > ZTK > to prevent old imports from breaking, and the ZTK distribution would then > just > have a dependency on the thing that got broken out. Well, if they just used their old zope.* names, no shims would be needed, right? If it works, don't break it so it doesn't work ;-) > I'm thinking that this would simplify things greatly for people who want to > be > consumers of "truly independent" Zope packages. There'd be exactly N of them > available for download (where N is much less than 100, more like 20), plus > the > ZTK, which would have the rest of the pile in it over time. If someone > wanted > to use a forked version of a package that lived in the ZTK distribution, > they'd > either do so by teasing out the dependencies and making it "truly > independent" > or they'd just reroll a custom version of the entire ZTK distribution. > > Does this make any sense? yes, totally in agreement. Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk _______________________________________________ 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 )