[schooltool-dev] Eggs, Tarballs and Packages

[Paul Carduner]

This all works for me.  I am pro eggs based releases I suppose.  The
only additional dependency CanDo has is zwiki... which frankly could
be taken out as no one uses that functionality as far as I know.  I
imagine Arlington will pay someone (other than me) to make cando's
release architecture compatible with the new schooltool release
architecture.  I'm happy with any release method as I only really care
about a working checkout : ).

- Paul

On 5/6/07, Brian Sutherland <jinty at web.de> wrote:
> Quite some thing have happened all of a sudden with the way schooltool
> is distributed/structured.
>
> So, I guess I should just explain what happened:
>
>     * Made a branch that releases schooltool as an egg
>         http://svn.schooltool.org/schooltool/branches/schooltool-eggs-redux/
>     * Made nightly releases from that branch as an egg
>         http://ftp.schooltool.org/schooltool/releases/nightly/
>     * Made a buildout installer (thanks ignas!!!)
>         http://svn.schooltool.org/schooltool/trunk/st-buildout/
>     * Made a schooltool and python-schooltool package based on the egg
>         deb http://ftp.schooltool.org/schooltool/archives/debian/ unstable main
>
> The schooltool package doesn't install (missing dependencies) and is
> probably broken in many other ways, but is very useful as a proof of
> concept.
>
> The buildout installer seems to work great, and can easily produce a
> running schooltool server. But I think it needs to be banged on a bit to
> make it run on other os'.
>
> So this sets up a lot of the infrastructure that we need to be able to
> make package releases. Thinks are not perfect yet, there are some
> notable exceptions:
>
>     * Translations are not built in the egg (should they be?, can
>       you do this in pure python?)
>     * There are lots of eggs we depend on that still need to be
>       converted to debian packages (help!).
>     * How's CanDo going to adapt to this change, the eggs-redux branch
>       does totally break their release infrastructure.
>
> On the whole, I'm quite happy with what we've done. It gets rid of a lot
> of the remaining nastiness in the release infrastructure and it looks
> like we can actually make releases this way.
>
> I'd like to propose merging the schooltool-eggs-redux branch. Any
> objections? Can someone from CanDo comment?
>
> --
> Brian Sutherland
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