[Zope-dev] several zope.* libs within gae (was ZCML implementations: where should they go)

[Tres Seaver]

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Tobias Rodäbel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>  > Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>  >> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>  >>> I'ld rather not see a whole slew of extra packagse appear. I also  
> wonder
>  >>> how the extra number of packages and increasing size of sys.path
>  >>> influence performance and restrictions on environments like GAE.
>  >>
>  >> For environments like GAE you don't want setuptools and its magic  
> to be
>  >> part of your application. This is were repackaging your entire app  
> into
>  >> one zipped egg or some other flat structure comes in handy.
>  >>
>  >> Setuptools and eggs are a distribution format from my point of view.
>  >> They are certainly not the best way to deploy your applications. The
>  >> growing sys.path is affecting performance to some degree in all
>  >> deployment environments.
>  >
>  > Well, zc.buildout ought to be able to eliminate this concern for GAE
>  > deployment.  I haven't tried the recipe below, but it certainly seems
>  > like the right idea.
>  >
>  > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rod.recipe.appengine
> 
> I released a new version today. It's a lot easier now to use several  
> eggs within gae. This test thingy http://zpttest.appspot.com/ uses  
> zope.interface and zope.pagetemplate plus their dependencies. I'm  
> planning to release another sample project maybe during easter  
> holidays. It's much more fun since you zope people cleaned up a lot of  
> dependencies and unveiled zc.buildout. Thanks!

Cool!  You should be able to use zope.component there in its latest
incarnation, too:  the C bits are all optional at this point.


Tres.
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