[Zope3-dev] Re: Distributing Zope as a ZIP file

[Paul Everitt]

IIRC, there was a discussion about this a year or two ago on this list. 
  Guido ultimately shot down the idea, saying it would be realistically 
impossible to import page template files from within a zip file.

--Paul

Garrett Smith wrote:
> Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 
>>Garrett Smith wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible to distribute the Zope files needed for an
>>>application in a single ZIP file? 
>>>
>>>I'm running into a problem with the natively compiled libraries,
>>>which are assumed to reside in the nested package hierarchy. AFAIK,
>>>native libraries can't live in ZIP files.
>>
>>If you mean PKZip, sure they can.
> 
> 
> Aren't PYDs just shared libraries? I'm not aware that Windows knows how
> to loaded libraries from a ZIP file?
> 
> The native libs are named to be stored in a flat directory (e.g.
> _zope_proxy_proxy.pyd). But the Zope code assumes they're in the package
> hierarchy. I could see something like this:
> 
>   try:
>       from zope.proxy._zope_proxy_proxy import *
>   except ImportError:
>       from _zope_proxy_proxy import *
> 
> I don't know if this is a standard pattern or just a hack.
> 
>  -- Garrett