[Zope3-dev] Re: Building standalone ZPT from Zope 3 using zpkgtools

[Shane Hathaway]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> It sounds like you are using Zope3 as libraries, which is the
> traditional "sweet spot" for distutis;  zpkgutils is really aimed at the
> kind of usage where distutils sucks^H^H^H^H^Hfails to meet expectations,
> which is to allow installation of a Python-base *application*, including
> related "add-on" packages.

Ok, that makes sense.  Still, if the application is large enough, I'd
prefer to bundle Python with it, making distutils useful even for
applications.

Shane