Packaging Zope 2.12

[Michael Mulich]

On 7/15/10 3:15 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>
> Tarek had one:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/distutils-sig@python.org/msg09163.html
> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/z3crecipedebian
>

This recipe is good for fixed applications. However, Plone sites are 
often extended using third-party products/packages. In our cause we have 
multiple Plone hosted sites that share the same Plone codebase, yet do 
not share the same set of third-party products. This is where using 
dzhandle in the past has been very helpful. This recipe pretty much 
locks everything into a single location, which would mean that I would 
need to create a deb for every single hosted plone site. I guess that 
wouldn't be awful, but I don't want to run a package build ever time I 
need to update a third-party product. And third-party products can be 
updated for some sites on a weekly basis.

I could probably extend the resulting Debian package to enable 
third-party products, like dzhandle mechanism does, but that still does 
not divide Zope from Plone. Ideally I'd like to see two base packages 
zope2.12 and plone4.0.

> I would suggest you to subscribe to the distutils mailing list.
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
>
I am subscribed. I'm a Google Summer of Code mentor for the distutils2 
project as well. Tarek is the lead for the distutils2 project, so I have 
been in communications with him too.

-Michael Mulich (pumazi)