[Zope-dev] Re: Reducing dependencies of zope.publisher

[Chris McDonough]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Andreas Jung wrote:
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> --On 21. März 2008 19:20:46 +0000 Martin Aspeli <optilude at gmx.net>  
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>> One thing that sucks right now for the repoze.zope2 story is that  
>> Zope 2
>> isn't "officially" packaged in an egg-friendly form so the Repoze  
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>> have to repackage it. It'd be great to be able to get Zope 2  
>> released in
>> a way that can at least optionally be installable as eggs.
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> I think this should be a major goal for Zope 2.12. We possibly will  
> have a Zope-(2 oriented) sprint in summer in Germany. If there are  
> volunteers and interest I could add this to the possible sprint  
> topics. Feedback welcome.

Personally, I'd be happy if Zope2 was shipped as a single egg almost  
exactly like we ship it here:

http://dist.repoze.org/zopelib-2.10.5.0.tar.gz

The one thing I'd like to see is ZODB (and "transaction") removed from  
it.  This is currently a little hard given that some C extensions in  
Zope depend on ZODB headers.  Fixing that would likely be less than a  
day's worth of work for a sufficiently motivated person.

I'm -1 on breaking it out into many eggs like Z3 is broken out now  
unless there's some super-compelling reason to do so for some limited  
number of packages (e.g. I can see StructuredText coming out).

- C