[Zope3-dev] eggs for Zope 3 extensions

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:14:15PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
| 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. :)

Look at the parameters for easy_install? If I recall it was almost
there but not quite :)

| >| 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?

That is my understanding too.

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