[Zope] Using eggs in a Zope instance

[Chris McDonough]

Can you not just copy the egg file to $INSTANCE/lib/python?

- C

On Aug 10, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Anton Stonor wrote:

> Python eggs are fun and powerful. However, there is one thing I  
> can't get right when using them for Zope projects:
>
> Sometimes I would like eggs to live in $INSTANCE/lib/python instead  
> of site-packages. E.g. if different instances needs different  
> versions of a package.
>
> However, easy_install won't install them there, because $INSTANCE/ 
> lib/python is not in the PYTHONPATH.
>
> And I don't want to extend PYTHONPATH to include all my $INSTANCE/ 
> lib/python's -- that would prevent the different version pr.  
> instance approach.
>
> How does you egg front runners deal with this?
>
> I'm on Windows if that matters.
>
>
> /Anton
>
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