[Zope-CMF] Re: Tools as local utilities

[Martin Aspeli]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> Let's get this discussion back from generic pie-in-the-sky to the  
> simple situation where we just need this one package integrated into  
> CMF 2.1, and quickly.

+1

> Wichert wants a Plone 3 beta very very soon, there is no time to  
> switch the CMF to any other packaging/buildout mechanism before that.  
> What happens on the trunk after the 2.1 branch is cut, I don't care.  
> I do care about getting the 2.1 beta out quickly. All that's missing  
> is merging the tool/utility stuff, which depends on having this new  
> component registry.
> 
> Taking this into account, how should the five.localsitemanager thing  
> be packaged?

My preference would be to ship CMF 2.1 as two tarballs - one for 
lib/python and one for Products, or one tarball containing Products/* 
and lib/python/* (i.e. to be extracted into the Zope instance root).

If that's unacceptable, Rocky can make localsitemanager use only 
relative imports and thus function as both a product and a package, 
though I don't know if anything needs to refer to 
Products.localsitemanager, which in turn makes it painful to use it as a 
regular python package.

Martin