[Zope3-dev] Putting pullparser and clientform where they belong (reverting 39890)

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:

>> While it's true that this is normal for you and me, I think the cause 
>> of "zope is just a library" is much helped if we *also* consider it 
>> normal for Zope to be installed into site-packages.
> 
> I'm not convinced that Zope is "just a library".  Certainly,
> the zope package is just a library, but I don't think that
> the app server is.
> 
>> So, I just want to point out that your statement of what is normal 
>> doesn't imply that we consider installation with `configure` without 
>> '--prefix' as *abnormal* and that this is something we should support.
> 
> Jim tries to figure out this triple negative ... :)

Sorry. :)

> On Linux, configure with without --prefix does *not* install Zope into
> site-packages.  It creates a top-level directory for Zope in /usr/local.

Okay, point taken.

> Furthermore, we do install Zope into site-packages on Windows and this
> (convenient for us) decision hasn't exactly been popular.
> 
> So, I reiterate that we should distinguish between releases of Zope
> packages and releases of the application server.  I'm pretty convinced
> that the app server is *not* a library and shouldn't be treated as such.

But the app server does use parts of Zope 3 that *are* libraries, so 
perhaps we should start thinking about splitting things up somehow?

Regards,

Martijn