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

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Mon Oct 23 11:11:04 EDT 2006


Rocky Burt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-23-10 at 10:28 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Fred Drake wrote:
>>> There's this draft proposal; I guess it's time for me to finish this:
>>>
>>>    http://zope3.zwiki.org/ZIPImportSupportForZope3

...

> Can I ask why Zope needs it's own api for this and we don't just use
> pkg_resources?  Loading files from arbitrary zip files is handled by
> python's builtin zip api, no?  The rest appropriate stuff we should be
> able to get from pkg_resources.
> 
> If pkg_resources has obvious fallacies, perhaps we should communicate
> with the author to address these?

I assume that this is directed at Fred and the ZIPImportSupportForZope3.

Fred, is there any reason not to change this to use pkg_resources?

Jim

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