[Zope3-Users] Zope3 as a package

[Lennart Regebro]

On 4/5/06, David Pratt <fairwinds at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> Hi. I am interested in Z3 for a desktop app and would be looking at
> using py2exe and py2app for packaging along with the gui and its
> functionality. It seems at the outset this might be sort of messy since
> Zope typically expects to live somewhere other than site-packages at the
> outset and then has its own packages to deal with.

Yes, but the zope packages only expect to be somewhere on the python
path. That this is usually not in site-packages doesn't matter.

> I am curious to know whether Zope's packaging will
> eventually change to be like other things python (and other frameworks
> like TurboGears or Django) in this regard that are happy to live in
> site-packages.

They should be, yes. Do you have an example of a zope package that
doesn't work if it is located in site-packages?

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