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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

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;

Well, if an egg has a namespace package that chooses to declare itself 
as such using pkg_resources, the egg better depends on setuptools so 
that pkg_resources is available when the egg is installed.

Or am I missing something?


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