[Zope3-dev] Package organization quandry

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Sat, 18 May 2002 11:57:25 -0400


>>>>> "CW" == Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:

    >> The costs are related to duplication of bits; i.e. a particular
    >> machine may have PageTemplate package installed multiple times,
    >> say once in site-packages for use in the user's own toy
    >> scripts, once for Zope in lib/python, and once in Mailman's
    >> $prefix/pythonlib <wink>.  Who cares?  Bandwidth and disk space
    >> are cheap.

    CW> ...yes, BUT:

    CW> What happens when you're trying to figure out _which_
    CW> PageTemplate package is being used. The thought of that scares
    CW> e somewhat...

Why?  It's actually simpler because Zope will /always/ use the one it
was distributed with, i.e. lib/python/PageTemplate.

-Barry