[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!

[Chris McDonough]

Distutils is really good at putting stuff in "site-packages" and its likely
that we can break up Zope enough to do this for some pieces but there also
needs to be some sort of installer for things that dont fit nicely into the
Python package framework.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Behrens Matt - Grand Rapids" <Matt.Behrens@Kohler.Com>
To: "Jeffrey P Shell" <jeffrey@cuemedia.com>
Cc: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>; "zope-coders"
<zope-coders@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!


> Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
>
> > On 3/1/02 7:30 AM, "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com> wrote:
>
> >>I'd suggest starting with the combination of Evan's zopemake and zctl
> >>scripts.  One thing that zopemake could be extended with is an
> >>autoconf-style "configure" that figures out where the appropriate
version of
> >>Python is, which C compiler to use, etc.
>
> > Can't the distutils framework be used?  It's got all of the utilities to
> > deal with various platform issues already.
>
> I'm all for using distutils to handle build issues, but a
> configure-style script might still be nice to set build and install
> options.  I actually have patches right now that modifies do.py to
> generate setup.py's on the fly, this could easily be adapted to the
> current Zope 2.
>
>
>