Leonardo Rochael wrote:
Not sure this is the right forum to reach those involved with the respective
code...
I've been playing with the plone3_buildout paste template and the recipes
sets up for your buildout. Specifically the plone.recipe.distro buildout,
which is also used by the plone.recipe.plone one for the non-eggified
Products.
Now that Zope officially declares Products to be a namespace, shouldn't we
be setting up these recipes to put these distributed products in a Products
namespace as well?
It doesn't do that in 2.10.4, as far as I know; I thought that was
scheduled for 2.11, but maybe it made it into a point release?
The change to the recipes is simple enough, just add a Products subdirectory
to each part and an __init__.py declaring the namespace before downloading
and unpacking the products, and in the zope2instance recipe putting
something like:
Right - we could (should) do this - but the longer term solution is to
re-package products as eggs and install them like that. :)
products =
${buildout:directory}/Products <-- notice the capital P
${productdistros:location}/Products
${plone:products}/Products
The benefit of this is enabling tools that understand python namespace
packages to understand what is happening with the products in a buildout.
You need to make sure that having multiple parts using plone.app.distros
works still, but that shouldn't be too hard.
One example of such a tool is the PyDEV extensions static code analysis
tool, that scans python files to enable proper code completion.
Would people be interested in such changes to the recipes and to the
ZopeSkel template?
This sounds like a good idea. The only problem I see is that quite a lot
of documentation (including, selfishly, my book) assumes the lowercase p
in ${buildout:directory}/products. It probably isn't a huge deal to
change it, but it would be a bit annoying.
Martin
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Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book
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