The eggification of Zope 3 in debian

[Fabio Tranchitella]

* 2006-10-27 01:47, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been thinking quite a bit about how the eggification of Zope 3 is
> going to affect the packaging of Zope 3. Eggification is a process
> whereby the current monolithic tarball release is going to be broken up
> into a large number of smaller tarballs each distributed as an egg.
> 
> I've come to the simple conclusion that each zope.* egg should, as far
> as possible, be treated exactly like a normal python package without any
> special zope rules. Knowing that code speaks louder than e-mails, I
> packaged four of the Zope 3 eggs.
> 
> [...]
>
> I am hoping to start a little bit of a discussion on whether this is the
> correct direction and if I should commit these to the pkg-zope
> repository.

Hi Brian, thanks for starting this discussion.

I agree with you, we'll need a debian package for every zope.* egg, but I
hope that we won't have so many source package. For me (speaking as one of the
zope3 maintainers) having too many source packages could be problematic when a
new upstream version is released, so I would go with a single source for
zope3 with a lot of single binaries. This monolithic source tarball could be
created by us if upstream doesn't provide one.

We'll obviously need a zope3 meta-package to bring togheter all these binary
packages and to install the /usr/lib/zope3 stuff, and we have to carefully
test the upgrade path.

I know that you follow the zope3 development more closely than myself, do you
have an ETA for the next release? Do you think it would be possible to start
working on the eggification with a recent svn checkout?

Thanks, and have a nice day.

-- 
Fabio Tranchitella                         http://www.kobold.it
Free Software Developer and Consultant     http://www.tranchitella.it
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