On Mar 3, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:03:48PM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: | I'm taking a stab at packaging the various pieces of ZODB as eggs. | One of the things I'd like to do is to separate the packages of ZODB | that are currently shipped together (BTrees, ZODB/ZEO, persistent | transaction, ZConfig) into separate packages, because each may | arguably be useful outside of what we call "ZODB" now. | | One of the issues I've run into is that there are compile-time | dependencies between packages mainly due to C header files. For | example, the BTrees package assumes that it will be able to find the | cPersistence.h file, which currently ships with the "persistent" | package. I wonder if I should bother breaking the persistent and | BTrees packages apart as separate eggs. I suspect not. Can't you make them separate eggs that depend on the other?
Well, yes. I've already done that. But it's a hack. The runtime dependencies aren't a problem, it's the build-time dependencies. I don't know of a way to say "use this header file from this egg to build this other egg" in an egg setup script.
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