Martijn Faassen wrote:
Hey,
Jim Fulton wrote:
[snip]
I'm guessing that this is an issue because you install
Zope's into site-packages and you don't want a Zope installed
package to clobber a package that is separately packaged. Is that right?
The normal way to install Zope is in it's own directory. In this case,
a package supplied with Zope only affects Zope. In which case, I don't
see the need to rip it out.
While it's true that this is normal for you and me, I think the cause of
"zope is just a library" is much helped if we *also* consider it normal
for Zope to be installed into site-packages.
I'm not convinced that Zope is "just a library". Certainly,
the zope package is just a library, but I don't think that
the app server is.
So, I just want to point out that your statement of what is normal
doesn't imply that we consider installation with `configure` without
'--prefix' as *abnormal* and that this is something we should support.
Jim tries to figure out this triple negative ... :)
On Linux, configure with without --prefix does *not* install Zope into
site-packages. It creates a top-level directory for Zope in /usr/local.
Furthermore, we do install Zope into site-packages on Windows and this
(convenient for us) decision hasn't exactly been popular.
So, I reiterate that we should distinguish between releases of Zope
packages and releases of the application server. I'm pretty convinced
that the app server is *not* a library and shouldn't be treated as such.
Jim
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