[Zope-dev] Product installation (implicit vs. explicit)

[Chris McDonough]

Forwarding to the list for "chewing"... ;-)

On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 10:08 AM 12/22/2005 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
>>> The progenitor of Eggs (Phillip Eby) suggests that this is too
>>> implicit.  He suggests instead that people who install packages
>>> should use a program which implicitly installs packages.  The major
>>> difference between this and what happens in Basket currently is
>>> that packages would be that non-zip-safe packages would be
>>> "exploded" at installation time rather than at Zope startup time.
>
> *And* you can get dependencies checked, downloaded, md5's verified,  
> etc. at that installation time, too.
>