[Zope3-dev] Re: Need to get more involved in Web SIG (was Re: Fixing ZServer bugs?)

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
[snip zope.interface missing]
> Hm, so it was checked by setup. Dang.  Well, we could hack around this
> in various ways, but it wouldn't be fun.

Yes, it appears it was checked by setup.py. In my experience the 
diversity of special setup.py's out there is a good example of why it's 
bad to do too much configuration in Python code. This is ironic given 
that I'm advocating Grok, but I guess there are good and bad ways to do 
this kind of configuration. :)

>> In general, it makes me uncomfortable to be relying on there being an 
>> egg when the project appears to have an active antipathy to 
>> easy_install and eggs.
> 
> It would be enough to rely on their being s source release that we could
> use without too much pain. Of course that remains to be seen. :)
> At this stage, I certainly wouldn't use the lack of egg support as a reason
> to disqualify Twisted.

I agree, and I didn't mean tot say that it was. I'm just saying it's 
another strike against. I was really disappointed in the hostility they 
seemed to display against eggs. It starts to add up after a while.

That said, I've just dropped a note to the author of the FAPWS WSGI (who 
also appears to be involved with Twisted) with an introduction and 
asking him what's up. :)

Regards,

Martijn