[loggerhead/MERGE] Switch Loggerhead from KID to ZPT template engine

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 11:30 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> I am concerned about being a good neighbour.  I don't want to repeat
>> what happened with cscvs, where Canonical took an open-source project
>> and made newer versions proprietary (eventually open-sourcing it again).
> 
> I don't think Canonical did anything wrong with cscvs on the code
> management side

I don't think it was neighbourly.  I won't argue "wrong".

> - what we did (using a GPL product internally,
> enchancing it as we did, and eventually releasing those changes) is
> completely consistent with both the spirit and letter of the GPL.

If the spirit of the GPL was to provide the "Four Freedoms" to users of
cscvs, then it really depends on whether you consider people who use
software through the web to be "users".

> I wonder if it would make sense to have a 'check deps' script of some
> sort which can run, import everything needed individually (e.g. TG,
> alchemy, etc) and report on them.
> 
> I imagine it might output something like:
> Checking TG...Error
> Checking ZPT..Ok
> Errors found, check foo.log for details.

It would be so simple for setup.py to provide that I'm surprised it doesn't.

Aaron
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