Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
On 7 Feb 2007, at 00:36, Martin Aspeli wrote:
Eggs make your life easier, especially if you want to use tools like
workingenv.py or zc.buildout.
Well, for simple work with the CMF like setting up a quick instance for
hacking and development *I do not want to use any tools*.
Who says you have to. It seems to me that the only people here
complaining are the ones who aren't quite familiar with eggs yet.
Also, I seem to detect a general tone of skepticism against the new
tools that the greater Python community is building. I can only
encourage people to take a look at thigns like workingenv and
zc.buildout and at what the Zope and Plone communities have done with
these tools. Perhaps they don't allow you to use simple symlinks for
deployment, but perhaps they offer something similiar, something even
easier and a few additional extra features perhaps? It's worth at least
checking these things out.
I want to
retain the same ease I currently have where all I need to do is either
copy or link a few directories into the instance Products folder. It's
intuitive and very fast for a Zope 2 developer. If you can offer the
same ease and speed with a different approach, fine. But I don't see it
with those wondrous tools.
Eggs contain Python packages. How you deploy the Python packages is your
choice. If you like copying or symlinking, fine. And, heck, you can
still symlink your products to Products. Nobody's getting rid of
Products. But please-oh-please let us start developing new things in
regular packages so that we can
a) make use of the tools provided to us by the greater Python community
b) ease other Python programmers into Zope (no more weird Products, no
more "Zope stinks", no more "Zope is its own universe"). Some of us
*like* reaching out.
c) make things easier for *ourselves* (being able to test a simple
Python package outside the context of a full-blown Zope instance is a
tremendous win).
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