[Zope] Third Party Products 2nd Post

[Rik Hoekstra]

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel G. Rusch <drusch@globalcrossing.com>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: woensdag 12 april 2000 15:28
Subject: [Zope] Third Party Products 2nd Post


>How does one install third party python products such as PIL or
>ReportLab so that Zope's python interpreter can find it in it's path.
>
>I have installed both of these python products on a machine that has
>python installed and not Zope and I have no problem using them. I am
>trying to install them on my Zope machine so that I can using them in my
>Zope site, but I can't seem to get Zope's python interpreter to find
>them.
>
>Should I install them in the Extensions directory or where? How does one
>set the Zope python path? Or is the evaluator stuck half way up.
>


The canonical way to do it is to install them in
<zopehome>/lib/python/Shared, though other solutions have been thought up
for PIL. Note, however, that they should be packages.

Rik