AW: AW: [Zope3-dev] Re: AW: Where should we place 3rd party packages?

[Roger ineichen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Roger ineichen wrote:
> 
> > Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > 
> >>Roger ineichen wrote:
> >>I agree that it would be a good thing to have a *default*
> >>location for 
> >>Python packages. But I think we already do, 
> INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python. 
> >>And then, Python always has /usr/lib/python/site-packages...
> > 
> > Sorry I didn't got this right.
> > 
> > Ho can I include a configure.zcml if I put a package
> > to INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python.
> > 
> > like in a top-level package "addons":
> > <include package="addons.ldapauth"/>
> 
> Let INSTANCE_HOME be the directory of your Zope X3 instance. 
> There is an 
> INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python directory that is suitable for 
> installing extra 
> packages for this particular instances. Simply put your 
> python packages 
> there, e.g.:
> 
> $ cd INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python
> $ svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/ldapauth
> 
> or
> 
> $ cd INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python
> $ tar xzf ldapauth.tgz
> 
> or
> 
> $ tar xzf ldapauth.tgz
> $ cd ldapauth
> $ python2.3 setup.py --home INSTANCE_HOME
> 
> Then you need to edit INSTANCE_HOME/etc/zope.conf to include 
> INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python in the python path:
> 
> path INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python
> 
> That should do it.

Ok, I see,
It doesn't matter where you put the top-level package ldapauth.
You could put it in:

src/
or
INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python/

and you can always use the directive:
<include package="ldapauth"/>

Regards
Roger

> Philipp