Fred Drake wrote:
On 10/17/07, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A common issue we are seeing is that we have eggs depending on each
other, but they still need to load the zcml from those dependencies
somehow. As a temporary solution to play with the concept I added
something simple to the plone.recipe.zope2instance buildout recipe.
What's the problem you're seeing? I'm not sure what you're trying to
solve. ZCML includes work just fine in the egg world.
As long as you're referring to packaged ZCML using
package="package.name" in your <include> and <includeOverrides>
directives, all is good.
The main win, IMHO, is to avoid the requirement for people to install
slugs for third party products. Slugs suck - they are confusing to
explain and people forget them all the time. Buildout makes it a bit
easier, but it's still not a terribly good solution.
For example, say you want to install oi.plum. You need to add the line
'oi.plum' twice - once under 'eggs' and once under 'zcml' in your
buildout.cfg. Forget the latter, and the package doesn't work properly
(or at all).
If we had entry points, we could just load the egg. Internally, oi.plum
may use <include /> as much as necessary to load *its* dependencies, but
that's not something the user of the package needs to worry about.
If Zope loaded entry-point ZCML automatically (maybe with an on/off
switch in zope.conf for those who need more fine grained control) that'd
be a pretty nice solution.
Martin
--
Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book
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