[Zope3-dev] Re: eggs in a Zope 3.3 instance

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 26, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
> [snip]
>> Adding a call to addsitedir won't accomplish your stated goal of  
>> dropping eggs into lib/python and having them get used.  For  
>> addsitedir to  have any impact, you have to also manage the .pth  
>> files.
>
> I don't know what you mean here. I don't recall managing any .pth  
> files... If I add addsitedir to the right places, the eggs will be  
> picked up. I have a test egg for the Document Library here that  
> pulls in pyoai, lxml (dependency of pyoai), hurry.query, zc.catalog  
> (dependency of hurry.query), hurry.workflow, and hurry.file.
>
> If I include the right ZCML in package-includes, Document Library  
> works.

Hm, do you have setuptools custom site.py installed as well?

The standard site,py doesn't do anything with eggs,  It just looks for
.pth files.

Jim

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