If no one objects, i would continue discussion only on pkg-zope-developers.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:09:30AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > I've just had a look and have a few comments. Thanks for reading. > The first and second pages talk about a default "zope" package and hint > at "other zope package versions". The third page then talks about the > zopeZ-pythonX.Y package providing zopeZ packages, and "zope" depending > on a particular "zopeZ". This document is far from being finished and I'll gladly accept comments even about its structure. > Do we really need to support multiple concurrent zope versions? My gut > feeling is yes, especially with the transitions to zope 3 becoming more > and more rocky, it will make sense to have old zope versions available. > > Do we need the -pythonX.Y part in the names? It seems Zope versions will > always be tightly bound to particular Python versions. This means the Z > part should make the pythonX.Y part redundant, and we don't need to > support multiple installs of the same Zope version using different > versions of Python. Well, look at 2.6 series. There was a point in which it worked with more than a particular version of python, and such a situation might happen again in future. On the other hand, if there will ever be a Zope version working only with a particular python version, X and Y will be implicit and `-pythonX.Y' part will be removed from packages names (Or, at least, i tried to say/imply this in the document). > Has much thought been given to zope-foo packages that support multiple > zopeZ versions? > > Also in the past I have had problems with zope-foo packages that > specified a particular version of python2.1, only to become out of date > as zope moved on to python2.2, but still worked (zope-zwiki...). Perhaps > a dependency on zopeZ alone without specifying a particular pythonX.Y > would fix this? Using the support for multiple python version, zope policy should imply that a source package of this kind have to build a binary package for each working combination of X, Y and Z (Also should tell you how to set up dependencies). At the beginning we could agree on supporting only one python version for each zope version, introducing more python version later. A simple dependency on zopeZ would be enough in this case, but i would not use it. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][-A-Za-z]*[iy]'?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Infinite loop: see `Loop, infinite'. | something in common: they Loop, infinite: see `Infinite loop'. | don't depend on the language.
