[z3-five] Re: Proposal: use $INSTANCE_HOME/package-includes

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Proposal
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> 
> I propose to simulate the Zope3 package experience in Five.  There
> will be a 'package-includes' directory in a Zope 2 instance, just like
> in a Zope 3 instance.  It will contain a few default include files for
> the packages that Five itself depends on.  A developer will then be
> able to install an addon package by dropping a ZCML file in there,
> just like in Zope3.

Also, Five does not use all of Zope X3 and probably never will. That is 
sometimes because it will not be possible and sometimes because we don't 
want to. Therefore, we might want to use well-defined dependencies on 
zope.* and zope.app* packages and feed this to Fred Drake's zpkg to 
generate a combination Five and Zope3 distribution for users. zpkg can 
make great use of a package-includes directory!

Philipp