[Zope-dev] Why third_party/docutils?

[Jim Fulton]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 16:01 Uhr -0500 Jim Fulton 
> <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --On Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 15:34 Uhr -0500 Jim Fulton
>>> <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --On Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 20:30 Uhr +0100 "Stefan H. Holek"
>>>>> <stefan at epy.co.at> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> *sound of me protesting noisily*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me remind you of the Pope's decree:
>>>>>> http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2004-November/024073.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not seen a proposal so far how to solve this issue that works
>>>>> with a complete
>>>>> Docutils package and without sitecustomize.py and I don't know about a
>>>>> better solution.
>>>>> Having Docutils in sane state from the maintenance prospective is much
>>>>> more important for me
>>>>> than leaving it as it was.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As I said in one of my responses to this thread, I see no problem that
>>>> this extra directory solves.  Could you please explain what problem
>>>> you think an extra directory will solve?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Stefan complained about the sitecustomize.py file and the additional
>>> paths injected inside the file. Moving docutils as a whole to lib/python
>>> would not solve the problem with similar adjustments to sys.path.
>>
>>
>> AFAICT, the problem is that you made a change that requires lots of
>> scripts
>> to be modified and become slightly more complicated. This is not a huge
>> deal
>> if there's a good reason for it, but I can't figure out what that reason
>> could be. See below.
> 
> 
> You're still not getting the point. Z2 shipped and Z3 ships with a 
> *stripped*
> down version of Docutils where only the "docutils" subfolder is used. Now
> the *whole* package is included which makes it necessary to adjust the 
> paths.

Please explain why including all of docutils requires adjusting the paths.

We include all of docutils in Zope 3 and don't adjust the paths.  We *did*
adjust docutils slightly.

Is the version in Zope 3 less complete than the one you want to include
in Z2?  If not, I suggest copying that one, as it works for Zope 3.

Jim

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