[Grok-dev] Re: grok in the egg universe

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
[snip]
> Given that it all seems to work (please test it for yourself!) and that 
> Zope 3.4 is alphaing soonish (and we're sadly not releasing at all 
> currently), I again state my opinion that this should be a short-lived 
> branch.

Way cool! I'll test soon.

I'm in favor of merging this asap, but I'll list some requirements.

Concerning the first proper release, what about coinciding Grok 0.9 with 
Zope 3.4?

> I also plan to feed back those changes to grokproject, making an 
> egg-based install the default, unless you provide --with-zope3= to point 
> to a traditional Zope 3 installation or checkout.

I'm happy to update the tutorial and want to move to the new method. I 
do want to retain the 'lighting fast installation' feature the tutorial 
currently have. If you set things up right, making a new instance for a 
particular tutorial is done in a flash. I hope we can figure something 
out with a local egg cache or whatnot to replicate this in the new scenario.

The next step with this is to start pulling apart Grok into separate 
bits and pieces, so that I can have a grokcore.component that's 
compatible with Zope 3 and release Zope 3 libraries that use it. We 
should do this after the merge of course.

Regards,

Martijn