[Zope-Coders] ZOPE_HOME

[Tres Seaver]

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 09:53, Matt Behrens wrote:
> In addition to merging the installer branch's setup.py as previously
> discussed and agreed on, I'd also like to merge ZOPE_HOME support
> into 2.6.  I do not see any way this could break anyone's current
> ways of doing things.
> 
> This is another variable previously proposed by Evan (IIRC) but
> never implemented.  It points to the directory where ZServer, z2.py,
> et al. are installed to.  It is needed to find the import directory
> now that Examples are imported automatically.
> 
> This is useful for my setup.py because it must currently pull modules
> out of both the root of the Zope tarball as well as lib/python, and
> a single distutils run can only install into one target directory
> (if someone knows otherwise, please let me know.)  Being able to
> set ZOPE_HOME means the software's import directory can still be
> accessed.
> 
> If ZOPE_HOME doesn't go in, there must be two setup.py's -- one for
> ZServer, z2.py et al, and one for everything in lib/python.

+1

Tres.
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