Re: SVN: zopetoolkit/doc/source/releaseteam/ minutes of ztk releaseteam meeting 11/09
Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/19/2010 03:20 AM, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote: > On 11/18/10 16:50 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 11/18/2010 05:19 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >>> On 11/18/10 11:16 , Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote: >>>> +The ZTK would like to use distribute by default. >> >>> Is the distribute project still alive? The reason I ask is that my >>> recent experience is that bugs reported in setuptools are fixed very >>> quickly, while there is no response from the distribute team. >> >> It does look as though development velocity on 'distribute' has slowed >> to a pace quite comparable to setuptools, with setuptools having the >> more recent release. The two trackers are at: >> >> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issues?status=open&status=new&kind=bug&sort=id >> >> http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/ >> >> The bitbucket UI doesn't show recency of issue activity, which would >> make the two easier to compare. >> >> I'm -1 on preferring 'distribute' in any overt way in the ZTK. Folks >> who want it can already use it when bootstrapping a buildout:: > > I'll make sure this is put back on the ztk release team agenda. > > Note though that there was no intention to introduce "creeping" > dependencies on distribute other than preferring it over setuptools. I > guess we had the idea distribute was still all the rage. > > The Grok project also got a few reports of strange, hard to reproduce > installation problems (shutil not importable in some weird way for > example), when people were using setuptools (in combination with a > virtualenv, and zc.buildout 1.5.2) that were gone when they tried with > the distribute option. AFAIK, zc.buildout >= 1.5 is still flaky when used with a virtualenv, which saddens me: it damaged a feature I frequently used (virtualenv compatibilty) in order to pursue one I strongly dislike (use with a system python). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzmiSIACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6NhgCdFc4XrsjJGe6Ap+eN8OQvEB6T X00AnjKRnENEF6x2P2fSfv6BldoLKOIh =qqlK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )