Matthias, You are conflating two conversations, and as a result you are reacting to the non-stated suggestion that the packaging system provides sufficient stability information to consumers. That suggestion would obviously be false, since anyone, including people with hostile intentions, can create packages. Let's separate the conversations for clarity:
1) Yes, there is a lack of ZODB documentation. Please feel free to contribute by writing documentation, especially for the upcoming book. However, keep in mind that there is no need to throw out packaging in order to document ZODB and third party functionality. Other people rely heavily on packaging and have much more success with it than you apparently do. 2) You seem to be interested in contributing a spatial index. Great, that sounds interesting! You don't have to create a package, but that is the best thing to do to gain an audience. > I do not gain a lot from buildout. Almost all recipes are geared towards > plone/zope/web development. Neither of which I am involved in. In fact I > have my own build system based on SCons which also use to build C++ > libraries, docs and more. While Buildout is suggested, it's certainly not required. A simple alternative to Buildout is to create your own mini-PyPI, which is amazingly easy. To do it, simply put the packages you want in a directory (or make them downloadable from a web page), then tell easy_install to use your index instead of PyPI. Shane _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
