Hi Brian > Betreff: Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.form 2.0 release > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:27:01PM -0800, Stephan Richter wrote: > > On Friday 05 December 2008, Martin Aspeli wrote: > > > Is there any indication on when we'll see a 2.0 release > of z3c.form? > > > > > > We need a widget that's not in the 1.9 release, but is on > trunk (for > > > a list with textline value type), and are wondering > whether to roll > > > our own or wait for a new z3c.form release. > > > > I am considering the code feature complete. I would like to get > > confirmation from people that (a) the z3c.pt integration works well > > I have an issue with this. z3c.pt.compat creates a nasty > issue when trying to package it as a Debian package. > > The root cause seems to be that z3c.pt.compat declares z3c.pt > as a namespace package. These are defined in the setuptools > documentation to be "merely a container for modules and > subpackages." [1]. z3c.pt doesn't conform to that as it > contains files. This doesn't matter till you try to install > it using the --single-version-externally-managed option, at > which point you get file conflicts. > > I've been thinking about it a while, and I think the only > solution is to rename z3c.pt.compat to z3c.ptcompat, make a > new release of that and migrate z3c.form. I'm willing to > implement that if there's enough support. > > [1] > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#namespace-packages
I agree A package should never use another package as it's namespace. Which means a package can not be both a package and namespace for other packages. Some distribution concept can work with this but others don't. Malthe are you aware of this? Can you change it? Regards Roger Ineichen _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
