[Zope3-dev] Eggification and some random files/packages

[Jim Fulton]

I hope others will comment, but I'll make some initial high-level  
observations:

- As I've said many times before, Zope 3 is both a library (really a  
collection
   of libraries) and an application.

- For the purpose of using Zope 3 as a library, there is no need for  
a Zope 3 egg.
   There is a need for individual eggs.  We also need to get the egg  
dependencies
   right.

   (FWIW, my near-term goal is to get to the point that we can build  
out our applications using the individual Zope eggs.)

- For using Zope 3 as an application:

   o It isn't clear that anyone is interested in really caring about  
the Zope 3 application as previously distributed (aka ZMI or OFS).   
I'm not aware that anyone has come forward to champion the Zope 3  
application and, more important, take leadership for the Zope 3  
application.  I certainly think that there should be some  
applications of Zope 3 that are useful and provide examples of use.

   o It isn't clear that an egg is really the best distribution  
format for Zope 3 the application, but that is really up to the  
people, if any, who want to lead the Zope3-as-application effort.  It  
might still be cool if there was an application egg that basically  
installed some script for making instances.

Jim

On Feb 19, 2007, at 5:17 AM, Baiju M wrote:

> Hi,
>    How we will be installing Zope 3.4, can I do it like this:
> easy_install zope3
>
> If this is the case, the zope3 package will contain few files/packages
> which are not separately eggified?
> What are the minimum files required in this zope3 package?
> I assume some scrips,docs etc. will be there.
>
> There are few tests which are located outside any particular package.
> zope.app.ftests and zope.app.tests
> Either we can distribute it with our huge zope.app egg or move it  
> to some
> other places.  What about moving those tests to zope.app.zcmlfiles ?
>
> Regards,
> Baiju M
>
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