On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 09:30 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > Here's a high-level response to this thread. > > As others have pointed out, zope.component and zope.interface should > work fine without the C optimizations and I'm in favor of changing > the setup to make them installable without the optimizations. > > zope.proxy is harder. :( What's especially sad is that the dependency > on it is rather unimportant. It is used by zope.deferredimport. I > was forced to use proxies because of annoying limitations in Python's > module implementation and the inspect module's assumption that a > module is not a module unless it subclasses the standard Python module > type. I expect though that a simpler proxy implementation could be > used by deferredimport. This would make zope.component depend on > zope.proxy only if the annoying zcml is used. > > I'd love to see both of the above fixed, but, sadly, don't have time > to fix them myself any time soon.
Thanks Jim for your comment. Darryl > > Jim > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Darryl Cousins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > "The ZCA framework is developed as part of the Zope 3 project. As > > noted > > earlier, it is a pure Python framework, so it can be used in any > > kind of > > Python application." [1] > > > > I was hoping to try using ZCA for a googleappengine experiment. Using > > Ian Bickings post [2] I set up a environment to install zca packages. > > > > zope.interface and zope.proxy both have .so files that aren't usable > > in > > a gae project. (_zope_interface_coptimizations.so and > > _zope_proxy_proxy.so). > > > >> From the quote above and other mentions on the web I gather that > >> there > > exist pure-python ZCA packages. Could someone point me to where to > > find > > them? > > > > Best regards, > > Darryl > > > > > > [1] http://www.muthukadan.net/docs/zca.html > > [2] http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/04/13/app-engine-and-pylons/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Zope3-users mailing list > > Zope3-users@zope.org > > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users > > -- > Jim Fulton > Zope Corporation > _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
