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

[Matt Behrens]

From: "Jeremy Hylton" <jeremy@zope.com>

 >>Zope3 uses distutils without installing into site-packages.
 >>Is that good enough?

Chris McDonough wrote:

> I dont know... how would you set up, for instance, a Zope "instance home"
> using distutils?

You wouldn't.  Distutils builds the modules in-place before the 
installation of a particular software home happens.  Instance homes are 
then created simply by making an appropriate directory and populating it 
with things that are needed in an instance home (this is currently done 
by a 'zope-instance' script that I wrote for the OpenBSD package, see 
<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/zope/files/zope-instance?rev=1.3>.)

Just because distutils contains all sorts of bits for the Python way of 
life doesn't mean we have to use them. :-)  It works fine for 
straight-up building of modules.