Hi Philipp,
- It only works through buildout. Ideally it would be supported at the
setuptools level, imho.
I'm not really convinced that that's necessary. From a practical
perspective, zc.buildout is the defacto deployment tool in the Zope
community.
Alas, not so for all Plone people: Some folks prefer workingenv's in
old-fashioned Zope (2) instances, some people use instancemanager, some
people still symlink into lib/python.
Also, working sets have "deployment" written all over it.
Good point.
setuptools has little to no machinery to aid automated deployments in
any way.
True. However, I think it's also legitimate to want to "depend on" a
complete "working set", which is more in setuptools land. But I see no
problem in solving this at a buildout level first.
That said, Wichert's proposed solution to put the information in
EGG-INFO would make it open for use by other deployment tools, even
setuptools.
True.
- I worry that the management of lots .cfg files could be cumbersome.
For Plone, we could probably generate one from the dist_plone package,
which otherwise lists "known working sets" for installers and
plone.recipe.plone.
Well, or the other way around: the installers could take the .cfg file
of the working set and grab the right packages according to that. After
all, a .cfg file can be read with ConfigParser quite easily.
Yeah, true. It's just that everything wants to be the "one true place".
In the Plone land, having to cater to non-buildout deployments may make
that harder, but like you said - .cfg files are pretty neutral.
- This doesn't really solve the dependency problem. I can't say, "Give
me Plone 3.0.1 or newer" in a third party package. That could probably
done by having a separate "Plone" meta-egg which uses >= type dependency
specifications, though.
Yes, this could be covered by a Plone egg (meta or not) and a
"Plone>=3.0" modifier that's put in the 3rd party package's setup.py (I
think the >=, <= operators can be valid in setup.py, just == isn't).
Right.
Anyway, like I said - I'd like to see a working version of this
approach; Plone could quite usefully use it, imho.
Martin
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Acquisition is a jealous mistress
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