Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-9-22 19:27 +0200:
... Dieter Maurer wrote: ... * PyPI doesn't necessarily have to contain eggs. It's primarily a discovery mechanism for humans. The fact that setuptools can download packages from it is not as important as the fact that developers can find packages there.
The reason why I had to promiss to make my products available via PyPI was that they can be downloaded from there.
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We extend the Zope2 configuration with an option "additional-products" which lists the products used by the instance that are not at a standard place -- such as those installed by "setuptools"
As long as the packages are on the PYTHONPATH, Zope 2 will find them. I don't think there's a need for this new directive.
But, such packages are not treated as Zope2 products -- which is essential for packages that are to be used as Zope2 products. I have learned meanwhile that by some disregard of concerns, Five can turn a package into a Zope2 product. Thus, the functionality is there -- just maybe in the wrong place. -- Dieter