Planet SoC

You may have noticed that version 0.2 of Malthe Borch’s truly excellent JBOT came out last night.  We use this in some of our themes, and hence has found its way in as a dependency for a good deal of our recent projects.
I ran development buildout last night and suddenly saw a lot of zope 3 components being downloaded, which if you’ve done it before you know is a recipe for disaster.
It seems one of the new features in version 0.2 (aside from the long-anticipated browser layer support) is it now correctly defines its dependencies.  This is a Good Thing™ but it does mean that JBOT now requires you to use fake-zope-eggs in your buildout.
Your zope2install section now needs to look like this:

[zope2]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2install
fake-zope-eggs=true
url = ${plone:zope2-url}

Not a big change, but it will cause Zope to advertise the packages it provides properly.  Incidentally, you also need to do this to try out plone.app.batch, a summer of code project that’s looking for comments for its demo.