[Grok-dev] Re: Autoincluding ZCML for package dependencies

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey Ethan,

Ethan Jucovy wrote:
> My colleague Robert Marianski and I are at the Snow Sprint and we've
> been having a lot of fun looking at Grok.  We've been working with
> Martijn for the past couple of days on a package to automatically
> include ZCML for a project's required dependencies (by looking at
> `install_requires`) to eliminate the need for redundant "<include
> package='...'>"s.  I've just written a blog post about this code and
> our work on it which I thought some of you might be interested in
> (here: http://www.openplans.org/projects/opencore/blog/2008/01/21/automatic-inclusion-of-zcml/
> ).  

For people following along, we hope to land this feature in Grok at some 
point (post-sprint, probably, but perhaps pre-1.0?). This feature will 
allow people to just add dependencies to their setup.py without having 
to worry managing includes of ZCML. This should make reuse of existing 
components a bit easier -- it's one less thing to forget --, and that's 
good, right?

Regards,

Martijn