> I think a good goal would be to have something like this: A Zope > instance home aware package/egg loader, so that in an instance home > you could add in packages like this: > > $ bin/package install zc.catalog > $ bin/package install hurry
This wouldn't be difficult to implement (at least in a simple way) -- easy_install (provided by setuptools) does downloads from package sources, and we experimented at the sprint with wrapping that functionality in order to bootstrap eggs. > > > On 3/5/06, Nathan R. Yergler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > During the Zope3 sprint following PyCon, Paul and I, with Jim's > > guidance, began work on exploring how Zope can utilize eggs and be > > packaged using eggs. Since we're still experimenting with how eggs > > will be used, I wrote a script, zpkgegg, which reads the zpkg > > configuration information for a package and generates a "standard" > > setup.py from which an egg and vanilla sdist can be generated. > > > > You can find the script in subversion in the projectsupport project. > > For a brief overview of how the script is used, see README.txt (in > > http://svn.zope.org/projectsupport/trunk/src/zpkgegg/). The eggs > > generated by zpkgegg do not attempt to distinguish between "runtime", > > "testing" or "development" dependencies, so almost all packages will > > want zope.testing. README.txt contains a brief example of how to > > point easy_install at the appropriate folders so that easy_install can > > resolve the dependencies. > > > > Note that at this point we're still experimenting with how we'll use > > eggs, so suggestions, feedback and comments are welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nathan R. Yergler > > _______________________________________________ > > Zope3-dev mailing list > > Zope3-dev@zope.org > > Unsub: > > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/eucci.group%40gmail.com > > > > > > > -- > Jeff Shell > _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com