[Zope3-dev] Re: Packaging pre-proposal/notes

[Martijn Faassen]

Chris McDonough wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 10:17, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
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>>So, I'll to run something like 'make' after every friggin' change of a 
>>.py file? I think it's bad enough having to restart Z3 all the time. 
>>Hey, we're all using Python for it's being an interpreted language. 
>>Please let's not have compile-like processes.
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>This is why I suggested the symlink thing, FWIW.  You won't need to run
>make after any change if packages are symlinked from source into the
>install tree.  Windows people?  They lose.
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I'm worried that this will raise the development barrier. If you start 
needing to cross your symlinks to be able to conveniently develop a Zope 
3 extension, that's not very helpful. It's supposed to be easy to 
develop a Zope 3 extension.

Though I guess doing it the Pythonic way would require you to either 
symlink or re-run setup.py install each time you make a change...

Regards,

Martijn