Re: [Zope3-dev] Dealing with external dependencies

2007-07-19 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 19 Jul 2007, at 19:36 , Dieter Maurer wrote: ... Things are a bit different with external dependencies (docutils, mechanize, ClientForm, twisted, etc.), I think. They bear a higher risk of breaking stuff for us in future releases, even if they're just minor releases, because we don't cont

Re: [Zope3-dev] Dealing with external dependencies

2007-07-19 Thread Dieter Maurer
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-7-18 23:24 +0200: >Up until now we've been a bit sloppy when it came to egg dependencies. >Not specifying a version number or range basically means that the code >in question assumes it will work with any future version of its >dependency. Which often is

Re: [Zope3-dev] Dealing with external dependencies

2007-07-18 Thread Jim Fulton
On Jul 18, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Up until now we've been a bit sloppy when it came to egg dependencies. Not specifying a version number or range basically means that the code in question assumes it will work with any future version of its dependency. Admittedly

[Zope3-dev] Dealing with external dependencies

2007-07-18 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Up until now we've been a bit sloppy when it came to egg dependencies. Not specifying a version number or range basically means that the code in question assumes it will work with any future version of its dependency. Admittedly, setuptools doesn't exactly make it easy to say "I depend on ZODB