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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 15, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Gary Poster wrote:
>
> > - We can continue to make sourcecode have fewer and fewer branches  
> > so people don't think about it much if ever.  I'm working on this-- 
> > the branch to put all the zope branches in buildout is in review!-- 
> > but maybe we shouldn't be waiting for this?
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> First, thanks for this information and for /all/ the great work  
> you've been doing on making our build environment sane(r :).

:-)

> I can't speak for anybody else, but most of my confusion in this  
> area has been because we're in a transition.  I'm sometimes  
> uncertain as to whether something's been moved into buildout or not,  
> so completing the task really seems like the best solution.

OK, cool.

> Question: is the ultimate goal to completely get rid of sourcecode,  
> so that all packages come from buildout?

I just updated the Hacking document ( https://dev.launchpad.net/ 
Hacking#Buildout ) with the current answer, AIUI.

That was our original goal. We still want to shrink it to a very small  
size, maybe to exclusively hold canonical-identify-provider and  
shipit. We then might connect those in using develop eggs, rather than  
symlinks in lib/.

> If you need help getting some of this code reviewed, please ping me  
> and I'll make time to do it.

Thank you!  I hope to take you up on that. :-)

Gary