[Zope-dev] ZCML implementations: where should they go

[Hanno Schlichting]

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.

Hanno