[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: zope 2.7 - 15

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, A Mennucc wrote:

> sorry for wasting your time: the problems below are solved in
> the version in experimental; I did not know that it would take
> so long to have it public, so now I put it at
>
>  deb  http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/zope/debian/sid ./
>  deb-src  http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/zope/debian/sid ./
Thanks, this works fine.  While beeing offline I had an idea which
might be worth discussing:

  1. Packages containing Zope products should install to

      /usr/share/zope/products/<product-name>

     or similar directory name.

  2. The postinst script should check for

      /usr/lib/zope<version>

     and create a directory for the product in the apropriate place.
     Then it shoud put a symlink for each single file of the product
     (or only to directories if they do not contain any Python files).
     Then the Zope version in question should be restarted to byte compile
     the python files.

Rationale behind this suggestion:

  1. LFS issues are solved because files go to /usr/share
  2. You can have Zope versions which depend from different Python versions
     because the byte compilation is done by the appropriate version.

I don't know whether this is a sane suggestion but I wanted not hide this
idea.

Kind regards

         Andreas.