[Zope3-dev] Test layers for zope.app.* packages

[Jim Fulton]

On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Fred Drake wrote:

> On 2/5/07, Baiju M <mbaiju at zeomega.com> wrote:
>> I have created zope.app egg two weeks back
>> (http://svn.zope.org/zope.app/trunk/)
>> I have used setuptools.find_packages function, so setuptools is a
>> dependency.
>> Should we need compatibility with distutils.core ?
>
> I suspect it's fine ok for an egg-supporting setup.py to depend on
> setuptools, though I'm wary of dependencies outside the Python
> standard library and our own code for basics.  Using zc.buildout
> ensures setuptools is part of a buildout anyway, so I'll get over my
> own little hangup pretty quickly.

Depending on a third-party egg is better than a vendor import  
(assuming that
we don't need to customize it).  We don't want to depend on anything  
with a
viral license such as GPL.

Jim

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