[Zope-dev] Re: Product installation (implicit vs. explicit)

2005-12-22 Thread Rocky Burt
Chris McDonough wrote: The question is this: do you think there should be an explicit install step for egg packages/Products or do you think it should be possible to just put eggs on your PYTHONPATH (and perhaps adjust a config file with requirements)? To be honest, the explicit'ness of an

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Product installation (implicit vs. explicit)

2005-12-22 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Rocky Burt wrote: Chris McDonough wrote: The question is this: do you think there should be an explicit install step for egg packages/Products or do you think it should be possible to just put eggs on your PYTHONPATH (and perhaps adjust a config file with

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Product installation (implicit vs. explicit)

2005-12-22 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 22. Dezember 2005 10:46:42 -0500 Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do Java people expect from jar files (I ask as a Java dope)? Do they have a more limited scope (no dependencies, for example?) Jar files have no dependencies. -aj pgpKlIVHcdQM0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Product installation (implicit vs. explicit)

2005-12-22 Thread Fred Drake
On 12/22/05, Andreas Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jar files have no dependencies. Well, I know you know what you mean here, but I'll elaborate since the kids haven't started fighting yet this morning. :-) Jar files don't have dependency metadata. They're pretty much equivalent to zipped

[Zope-dev] Re: Product installation (implicit vs. explicit)

2005-12-22 Thread Rocky Burt
Chris McDonough wrote: What do Java people expect from jar files (I ask as a Java dope)? Do they have a more limited scope (no dependencies, for example?) Coming from a heavy java/j2ee background I can say that people in java-land expect to place jar's on the java classpath (equivalent of

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Product installation (implicit vs. explicit)

2005-12-22 Thread Stefane Fermigier
Fred Drake wrote: On 12/22/05, Andreas Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jar files have no dependencies. Well, I know you know what you mean here, but I'll elaborate since the kids haven't started fighting yet this morning. :-) Jar files don't have dependency metadata. They're pretty