[Zope3-dev] Re: zopeproducts, yet again

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Jeffrey P Shell writes:
>  > Is there a way to add to that path just to run Zope?  Zope 2.7's 
>  > ZConfig setup includes the 'products' directive:
> 
> It wouldn't be difficult to add something similar to Zope 2's "path"
> setting:

You probably mean "add the Zope 2 "path" setting to Zope 3"?

>       This specifies additional paths directories which are inserted
>       into the beginning of Python's module search path.  The set of
>       directories specified is inserted into the beginning of the
>       module search path in the order which they are specified here.
>       Note that the processing of this directive may happen too late
>       under some circumstances; it is recommended that you use the
>       PYTHONPATH environment variable if using this directive doesn't
>       work for you.
> 
> Note that this is different from the "products" setting; that modified
> Products.__path__, while the "path" setting modifies sys.path.  Zope 3
> simply doesn't have an equivalent to Zope 2's Products package, and it
> doesn't need one.
> 
> I'm happy to add a "path" setting matching this description, however.

+ 1 (on the implementation too)

Philipp