Re: Important: Release clarifications and updates

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Alexander Limi wrote:
| I've put a couple of hours into cleaning this up with Alan and Simon,
| and  the following mail summarizes what's been done. Mandatory reading. :)

Thanks for doing so :)

Now i can continue to build rpms without wondering any time what i
should put in there. To easy the live of the package builders is propose
to write a small python tool which configures what _is_ inside the
installer and where it can be downloaded. This tool will have a class
based configuration with a Base class which holds all platform independ
stuff. Platform specific products can live in a Subclass which inherits
from base.

So it would be like this:
python2.3 retrieve_plone.py --conf=rpm --dest=./rpmfiles

This would urlretrieve all defined components and put them into the
rpmfiles folder. This script will live inside the installers repository
of sf.net/projects/plone. Anyone should use it imho. As well this script
can be used to bundle Plone (aka. Plone the Product) to get exactly the
same into this package as well.

Expect this script to be in CVS till tomorrow ~12:00 CET.

The reason i do this is that we need to keep track in a version control
system what _is_ part of the plone installer and where it can be
downloaded. This way there _has_ to be a downloadable release of a
product which wants to be inside the distribution. This prooved very
useful for the release management of icoya (which lays in my hand). It
ended up any confusion what is inside which version and made all quite
plain. Please let us have a similar transparent release schema.


cheers,
~ Simon

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