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

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue Feb 6 10:05:50 EST 2007


On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

> On 2/6/07, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>> An egg should only *depend* on setuptools if it uses things like
>> pkg_resources (e.g. for namespace packages).
>
> But there's no need to depend on setuptools for namespace packages
> generally; that's specific to namespace packages in the presence of
> zip_safe eggs.

I think it goes beyond that.  In any case, there *will* be zip safe  
eggs.

> This is where I get (somewhat) antsy.

I think you need to get over it. :)

Jim

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