Hi all, On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:49:30PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hello, > > ZODB has its own source tree [...] > So I wonder if we should not provide an extra ZODB package which > can be used separately from Zope - and will be used by Zope for sure. > Moreover it comes to my mind whether Zope python modules really should > be provided under /usr/lib/zope or if it would be better to install > it under > > /usr/lib/python<version>/site-packages/zope > > In this case you might be able to use modules from Zope without any > effort.
This is a good idea to me, and it's worth of trying: there are olso other packages which are included in Zope source for convenience (like ZPT, or ZEO) for which we can try as well. I do not agree on one thing though: the majority of Products for zope are python source code and so they are architecture independent. That's quite the same for other python modules. We should not store that files under /usr/lib but under /usr/share as stated in FHS. We should change python policy to include /usr/share directory in sys.path as well as it was for /usr/local. (That would save at least 1/2 of python policy). Very well, I intend to open a alioth project for collaborative maintainership of zope package and zope-related stuff. I most probably call it zope-packages and i'll use it for other zope packages i maintain. Any other developer joining will be apreciated. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][-A-Za-z]*[iy]'?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Infinite loop: see `Loop, infinite'. | something in common: they Loop, infinite: see `Infinite loop'. | don't depend on the language.
