* Jim Fulton <[email protected]> [2009-08-12 11:52]: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Wolfgang Schnerring<[email protected]> wrote: >>* Jim Fulton <[email protected]> [2009-08-12 01:36]: >>> In playing with this today, I'm inclined to think that it would be >>> simpler to use a list of packages in an option to specify the packages >>> to be tested and used a versions section to specify versions, rather >>> than using a controlled-packages configuration file. >> >> This doesn't strike me as simpler to *use* (as I said earlier, I'd much >> prefer a *single* gesture of "use this KGS" to set up both the versions >> and the list of packages to run tests for, and I think it's worth >> spending effort to get there), but I'm not sure that's what you meant. >> What makes you prefer two files instead of one? > > I didn't say anything about 2 files. I said I prefered a parts list > in a single option in combination with a standard buildout versions > section.
Sorry for my misunderstanding. In fact, I'm not hung up about the number of files all that much, but rather I'm searching for a way not to duplicate information. And that seems rather diffcult, since you assert... > - We'll need the versions section to consume the KGS. That is, given > a KGS, you'll often want to use the versions in other buildouts to > limit them to the known good configuration. ...while Martijn said here <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.devel/21328> that the KGS will need to store more information about each package than a versions section can handle. > - The parts section and versions section could be specified in a > single file, so the "gesture" for using them could be pretty simple. This seems to be the best we can do, given the above requirements. If I understand you correctly, that file would then look something like this: [versions] zope.foo = 1.2.3 grok.bar = 1.1.0 thirdparty.dependency = 4.4 [zope.foo] tested = true kgs = ztk develop = http://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.foo/branches/1.2 [grok.bar] tested = true develop = http://svn.zope.org/repos/main/grok.bar/trunk [thirdparty.dependency] tested = no z3c.recipe.compattest/kgs would learn to extract all sections from the above where tested=true. And zope.kgs/zope.release could then probably be retired (or am I missing something?). > - I think a parts list in an option will be easier to control. For > example, you will be able to use the standard buildout option > incrementing and decrementating machinery to modify it. I don't understand how a parts list could help here. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] 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 )
