[Zope3-dev] Re: NAG NAG NAG (Was: Let's have a bug day -- sort of)

[Jim Fulton]

On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> I see what I can do this weekend. I'll look into 673 and see  
>>> whether I
>>> can make sense of 683.
>>
>> Christian seems to have a handle on this.
>
> Then why is this issue unassigned? If Theuni is taking all the bugs, I
> can just relax and work on my book this weekend yes? Seriously,
> Christian, which ones you wanna work on?

He's been pretty good about assigning things to himself that he plans  
to work on.  I don't think he planned to assign it to himself.

>> He blames it on broken logic in mkzopeinstance.
>
> Yeah. Here's what it does::
>
>    zope_init = os.path.abspath(zope.__file__)
>    software_home = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(zope_init))
>
> I wonder what a better way would be to find software_home. Asking  
> where
> zope.app is?

Yes


>>
>>> Actually, talking about 683: I once noticed that Zope 3 is declaring
>>> 'zope' as a namespace package the setuputils way where as Zope 2  
>>> does it
>>> the pkg_util way. I wonder which one is the one we should stick  
>>> with?
>>
>> I've been meaning to ask Phillip Eby about that.  I'm curious why he
>> wrote his thing given pkg_util.
>
> Until we get an answer from him, how about Fred's suggestion?

+1

Jim

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