[Zope-dev] How to publish Zope2 products on PyPI

[Andreas Jung]

--On 22. September 2007 13:14:45 +0200 Janko Hauser <jh at zscout.de> wrote:

>
> Am 22.09.2007 um 07:59 schrieb Dieter Maurer:
>
>> My current ideas towards a solution:
>>
>>   We define a package prefix for Zope2 products, e.g.
>> "zope2.products".
>>   Zope2 products are published to PyPI as "<prefix>.<productname>".
>
> Searching for "Products" at PyPi results in a longer list. So I think a
> namespace is already present.
>
>>   We extend the Zope2 configuration with an option "additional-
>> products"
>>   which lists the products used by the instance that are not
>>   at a standard place -- such as those installed by "setuptools"
>
> There is a directive in zope.conf to add additional directories to the
> products namespace.
>
> To add downloaded eggs to an instance one can set them in the PYTHONPATH
> environment variable. Buildout does it in the "./bin/ctrlsrcipts"
>
> These are only hints, because I also have severe difficulties to put all
> these things together. One point I do not understand is, how to build
> eggs from src checkouts in one buildout for zope2 without downloading all
> dependencies as eggs (which are also part of the main zope install)

I think there are currently several approaches doing products-as-eggs in 
the Zope 2 world - I also lost track a bit and have no idea how to do it 
the right way[tm].

>
> Is there actually a list, where buildout questions can be asked?
>

There are discussions from time to time on the distutils-sig list.

-aj

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