Package Organization (was Re: [Zope3-dev] Voting on Schema design)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "JF" == Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> writes:

    JF> Why? The seach order should be governed by sys.path, just as
    JF> for any module search.

    JF> Would you want a different search order that sys.path?

Nope, you're right, sys.path is /exactly/ the mechanism to control
this.  You won't be able to order from a Chinese menu ("I'd like
PackageA from patha but PackageB from pathb"), but moving them out of
the Zope placeholder package wouldn't help you.

So this should go in Zope/__init__.py:

-------------------- snip snip --------------------
import os
import sys

for dir in sys.path:
    fullpath = os.path.join(dir, 'Zope')
    initfile = os.path.join(fullpath, '__init__.py')
    if os.path.exists(initfile) and not fullpath in __path__:
        # The other package be searched later
        __path__.append(fullpath)
-------------------- snip snip --------------------

Now we just have to figure out how to make this work with the
distutils way of things. ;)

-Barry