[Zope-dev] Re: Zope without Zope

[Martin Aspeli]

Jim Fulton wrote:

>> I understand the historical reasons behind these dependencies, but I  
>> genuinely think we should pick a few libraries that are "useful" to  
>> the outside world (zope.interface, zope.component,  
>> zope.configuration, zope.annotation, zope.event come to mind) and  
>> work to make these have "clean" dependencies.
> 
> Most or all of the ones you mention already do.  zope.component's  
> dependencies are clean as long as you don't try to use the zcml  
> support. zope.annotation is the only one I'm not sure about but I bet  
> it's dependencies are modest.

zope.component, zope.interface and zope.schema worked well for me.

zope.annotation does not work well at all - it's sat here doing
zope.app.appsetup as I type this; zope.app.component,
zope.app.authentication, zope.app.debug, zope.app.dependable,
zope.publisher... I won't go on. I think zope.location which includes 
zope.security is the culprit.

In general, I guess if we have zope.* packages depending on zope.app.* 
packages, something is wrong. ;)

Martin

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