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

[Shane Hathaway]

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

Shane