[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