On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:52:43AM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: | | 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.
Maybe it's a missing feature. I would ask Phillip Eby. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems, LLC. http://enfoldsystems.com _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
