[Zope3-dev] eggs for Zope 3 extensions

[Martijn Faassen]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:51:37PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> | where 'make' creates a Zope 3 installation, and downloads all the eggs 
> | listed as requirements for this project from the net, and installs them 
> | so that the Zope 3 instance actually picks them up.
> 
> I think you would give a argument to easy_install to install the eggs
> in `INSTANCE_HOME/lib/python`.

Right, I can make it work, I just wondered if there was some canonical 
way. :)

> | In particular, are there any ideas of how the -configure.zcml and 
> | -meta.zcml files would end up being generated and installed in 
> | package-includes? Eggs do not provide for this directly, but perhaps 
> | there are some ideas about Zope 3 specific eggs that do?
> 
> I think those would be handled by 'entry points'.

Looking them up... As far as I understand them, Zope 3 would need to be 
able to understand entry points before I could use these in a project 
that uses Zope 3, right?

Regards,

Martijn