The eggification of Zope 3 in debian

[Fabio Tranchitella]

* 2006-11-06 12:33, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> Ok, so you agree with me that multiple binary packages are the way to
> go, but want to put everything into a huge source package to reduce
> maintenance costs. A very valid point.
> 
> Upstream will also have a maintainence issue managing many packages, and
> is looking to automate the management of all these packages using
> zc.buildout. My original plan was to try and automate the creation of
> many small source packages for a zope release built on top of the
> buildout automation.
> 
> Though the automation could also be useful for updating a single large
> source package.

I have the experience of a-lot-of-source-packages from plone releases,
and they require a lot of work. If I could go back with a time machine,
I would handle plone and its dependencies as single source package. :)

> I don't have an ETA (also, historically, zope misses it's release
> date;). But it looks like the zope people are still sorting this out, so
> we need to wait a long time before starting any serious work.

Fine, just let the list know about the upstream developers choices.

Thanks!

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