Hanno Schlichting wrote at 2009-2-8 14:14 +0100: >Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> I'ld rather not see a whole slew of extra packagse appear. I also wonder >> how the extra number of packages and increasing size of sys.path >> influence performance and restrictions on environments like GAE. > >For environments like GAE you don't want setuptools and its magic to be >part of your application. This is were repackaging your entire app into >one zipped egg or some other flat structure comes in handy.
But you can do that (packaging everything into a single zip) at "home" -- and can interpret "extra"s there (without a need to have "setuptools" to call in your deployment environment. >Setuptools and eggs are a distribution format from my point of view. >They are certainly not the best way to deploy your applications. The >growing sys.path is affecting performance to some degree in all >deployment environments. I think your single zip would not mind whether it were build from a flat egg structure or from one with ":extra".... -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
