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

[Martin Aspeli]

Andreas Jung wrote:

> 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].

To my knowledge, there are only two, complementary approaches:

  1. Keep the Products.* namespace

    - distribute your egg with a namespace package 'Products'
    - only works (reliably) on zope trunk/2.11+
    - ZCML processing and initialize() is implicit/automated

  2. Use a regular python package (whether with a namespace or not)

    - distribute your egg with any namespace (or no namespace)
    - most of the plone.app.* packages are products
    - works on Zope 2.10.4+
    - ZCML is only processed if the package is explicitly included from 
site.zcml (or a ZCML slug, or another package/product that is being 
processed)
    - The package only becomes a product if the <five:registerPackage /> 
ZCML directive is in use

Martin

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