On Jul 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Stephan Richter wrote: > On Wednesday 01 July 2009, Jim Fulton wrote: >> What is the difference between zope.release and zope.kgs? Is the >> latter a fossil? Does it need to go away? > > zope.kgs is the software and zope.release is the management of the > Zope 3 KGS. > So a Grok KGS would use zope.kgs but not zope.release. > >> Why does zope.release have a 2-step build process? Perhaps naively, >> it seems that one could define a simple project that defined a test >> script over a "known good set" of projects. Is the 2-step process a >> consequence of maintaining the index or tar ball? (I'm not >> criticizing, I'm just trying to understand.) > > I have been bothered by this before, but not enough to fix it. > Basically, It > could easily be one step. > > The two steps stem from the fact that you have a KGS file from which > you > produce all sorts of interesting artifacts. The test setup is one such > artifact. you then use the artifact. Of course, for convenience one > step would > be fine. Maybe it is even a PITA in zope.release.
OK, well, I'll try to sort this out using zope.release. Wish me luck. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ 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 )