Dieter Maurer wrote:
During our latest discussion to put my most important Zope2 products
into a public repository, I have promissed to publish them on
PyPI instead. Yesterday, I started work to fulfill this promiss
and carefully read the PyPI related documentation -- to find
out, that it is not easy to publish Zope2 products.
As the name suggests, PyPI is for Python packages.
And Zope2 products rightfully are no Python packages:
Sure they are. They're a directory with an __init__.py.
I think this is a misunderstanding. It seems you think Python packages
have to be installed globally. This isn't the case. And certainly nobody
would recommend doing that for Products packages.
When a Zope instance starts, it does potentially
expensive things for its products.
This would only be a problem if the Products packages were installed
globally. They don't have to. See below.
I have tiny Zope instances with a few inexpensive products
that start within a few seconds. And I have huge
Zope instances with lots of products which parse huge
XML files or have large message catalogs
and take half to one minute to start.
Definitely, I do not want that all my Zope
instances use the same products installed
via "setuptools" somewhere under the central "site-packages".
Nobody expects you to. As others have pointed out
* PyPI doesn't necessarily have to contain eggs. It's primarily a
discovery mechanism for humans. The fact that setuptools can download
packages from it is not as important as the fact that developers can
find packages there.
* Installing eggs doesn't necessarily mean they're installed globally
into site-packages. There are a number of mechanism to create isolated
sandboxes, some of which include turning a Zope 2 instance into an
egg-capable sandbox (in other words, so that lib/python can contain
eggs). And then there's zc.buildout, of course.
My current ideas towards a solution:
We define a package prefix for Zope2 products, e.g. "zope2.products".
Zope2 products are published to PyPI as "<prefix>.<productname>".
-1
+1 for *continuing* to use the already widely used Products prefix.
We extend the Zope2 configuration with an option "additional-products"
which lists the products used by the instance that are not
at a standard place -- such as those installed by "setuptools"
As long as the packages are on the PYTHONPATH, Zope 2 will find them. I
don't think there's a need for this new directive.
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