[Zope-dev] zope-2.9 r40780 make install doesn't finish, files missing from bin

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:

> And would have made including Zope 3 in Zope 2 a real mess.

I realize that zpkg has important benefits and use cases. My point with 
trying to point out weaknesses is not to argue against the existence of 
zpkg - something like that needs to exist given the use case of one 
repository multiple distributions. I want to create awareness of other 
use cases that perhaps need to be fixed as well.

Part of this is due to learning curve issues. Part of this is because 
this can be seen as a non-essential difference between Zope and the rest 
of the world -- I wonder whether other Python projects have dealt with 
one repository multiple distributions before, or whether Zope is the 
first. I suspect it is...; it's just that we're trailblazing an area is 
not related to web applications directly, which makes it harder to do, 
and is also something we as Zope should be very careful about.

Regards,

Martijn