[Zope-dev] Re: zcml entry points

[Jim Fulton]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Ross Patterson wrote:
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> I'm new to eggs, but maybe both sides could be satisfied with an
> approach like extra_requires?

Extras are evil.  See other posts of mine for explanations of why.

> You could list "oi.plum [zope.zcml]" when
> you require oi.plum *and* its ZCML and then it's ZCML would get  
> loaded.
> Is this easily possible with eggs and/or buildout?

easy_install has nothing to do with loading ZCML.  A recipe could do  
something, but extra-requires don't help in any useful way.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
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