[Zope-dev] Re: egg issues: adding namespace boilerplate Products / patching testrunner

[whit]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> Previously whit wrote:
>>> 2 items:
>>>
>>> 1. how does everyone feel about adding the following boilerplate to 
>>> all occurences of Products/__init__.py to enable the easy creation of 
>>> Product eggs?
>>
>> Aren't we asking people to move to using python packages instead?
> 
> Well, I certainly hope we're not asking people to rename all of their 
> existing products because that would be a waste of time.
> 
> This change eases the deployment of existing products as eggs.
> 
>> I'm -1 on requiring such changes to Products.
> 
> I think you're misunderstanding the issue at hand. Nobody's products 
> will have to change. Zope's lib/python/Products/__init__.py will change.
> 
> 
exactly... and python packages don't quite work right all the time(like 
that wierd bug with directory views and ZEO).


-w

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