Hey, Hanno Schlichting wrote: [snip] > I don't see how a ZTK meta-egg would be of any value. Given that the > number of packages included in the ZTK will change quite a bit over > time, it doesn't make sense to depend on a ZTK egg for a package, as > it doesn't provide any real stable contract. An egg with hard coded > exact version numbers is pretty painful as well, as you cannot > override those requirements to go for selected newer versions of any > packages pinned in such a way. Opting for a newer zope.testing release > for example is quite a common requirement. > > I don't think it makes sense for anyone to "install the entire ZTK". > Projects being built on top of the ZTK are most often only interested > in a part of the ZTK and will depend on such packages explicitly. What > is valuable for those, is the stability contract between various > versions of packages in the ZTK.
I agree with this - I see little value in a ZTK egg, and I also agree the ZTK explicitly supports using part of the ZTK only. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
