[Zope3-dev] RFC: Zope Configuration Egg Support

[Jim Fulton]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 10/22/06, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>> I've created a small proposal to add egg support to zope.configuration:
>>
>>    http://zope3.zwiki.org/ZopeConfigurationEggSupport
> 
> Shouldn't the egg work as a package, so that you still can use the
> package attribute?

If an egg installs a package and if the package isn't a namespace
package, and if the egg isn't zipped, then yes, the package mechanism
will work.



> Or does egg magic only do that for python files?

Do what?

> Because you then get the problem if you switch between an egg version
> and a non-egg version of a module...

I don't know what you are getting at.

Supporting eggs explicitly will allow dealing with a number of situations:

- namespace packages (like zope.app)

- zipped eggs

- eggs with names that aren't the same as the names of
   packages they contain.

- Entry points.

Jim

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