[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Zope Configuration Egg Support

[Jim Fulton]

Rocky Burt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-23-10 at 07:54 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> Seems strange to have to differentiate between
>>> "regular" packages and egg-available packages.  Perhaps I'm expecting
>>> too much from eggs... having been spoiled by jars.
>> We aren't taking about import. We are talking about reading files.
> 
> Indeed, as am I.
> 
> 
>> You can't use the same API for reading files from eggs (or jars) and
>> for reading files from a file system.  The current package option
>> reads data from the file system.
> 
> Right, this is where java's ClassLoader.getResource bridges things in
> java-land.  It can load files from *anywhere* on the classpath,
> including within jars.
> 
> 
>> Perhaps we should change the package option so that it uses the pkg_resources
>> API to load ZCML files from packages.  There are still cases where egg != package
>> that would need to be addressed specifically.
> 
> So pkg_resources isn't smart enough to either load from the filesystem
> directly or from within an egg? 

AFAIK, It only loads from eggs.  I may be mistaken though.
Perhaps someone could verify whether pkg_resources can
be used to load from non-egg packages.

Jim

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