On Friday 22 April 2005 10:18, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Stephan Richter wrote: > [snip] > > > I think of zpkgtools as a prototype for extensions that are necessary > > for distutils. > > Is it the Zope project's job to extend distutils, though? I mean, > developing something new is nice, but there's a lot of a new stuff on > our plate already, isn't there?
I wish it wouldn't and that distutils would provide what we need out of the box. But it does not, so we have no choice. I think zpkgtools will serve as a nice prototype for a distutils extension later on, like zLog did for logging. > > Overall, I think that zpkgtools is very successful. And it is not > > Zope-specific! Twisted could use it too. > > It's Zope specific as only the Zope projects are using it, as far as I > am aware. Lots of people could use it, but I'm worried that without > significant effort to promote and adjust this, it won't happen. Well, but we do not have the manpower to promote it. I think there are a lot of technologies in Zope 3 that could use promotion in its own right. > I mean, Twisted could use ZCML too, but they're not, and I doubt they're > likely to, and they're the most likely project to use ZCML of them all, > as they use zope.interface already. Granted zpkgtools is easier to > distribute independently, but then again, for distributing ZCML we have > zpktgtools. :) Twisted has this idea that configuration should be done in Python. I personally think this was a big mistake! Their adapter registrations are all over the source files, which makes it impossible to replace an existing adapter with another. > Perhaps I'm wrong and zpkgtools takes time out of our hands overall > already, including maintenance and learning curve. It takes a lot of time off our hands! I was very surprised last week, how easily I was able to get the release building going. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
