[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!

[Paul Everitt]

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Yep, I've been through the writeups for the various permutations of 
zopemake and zctl.  There's also some influence from Tres' writeup on 
standard software layouts.

--Paul

Chris McDonough wrote:
> I'd suggest starting with the combination of Evan's zopemake and zctl
> scripts.  One thing that zopemake could be extended with is an
> autoconf-style "configure" that figures out where the appropriate version of
> Python is, which C compiler to use, etc.
> 
> - C
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Everitt" <paul@zope.com>
> To: "Behrens Matt - Grand Rapids" <Matt.Behrens@Kohler.Com>
> Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>; <zope-coders@zope.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 7:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!
> 
> 
> 
>>+1, and I say that knowing that it means I have to help.  I'm willing to
>>write the docs for whoever works on the code.
>>
>>A gentle reminder on some of the posts in this thread.  Please don't
>>respond with "I'd really like <some good idea>."  Respond with "I'm
>>willing to do the work for <some good idea>."  That's part of the point
>>with Brian's note.
>>
>>You don't _have_ to do the code work.  If you write up the docs for
>><some good idea>, you've likely done most of the work.
>>
>>--Paul
>>
>>Behrens Matt - Grand Rapids wrote:
>>
>>>Brian Lloyd wrote:
>>>
>>> > Let's get a discussion
>>>
>>>
>>>>started to define 2.6.
>>>>
>>>
>>>This isn't exciting by any means unless you're one of the people who
>>>package Zope up for distribution, or maybe you're one of the people who
>>>manage lots of little Zopes on one system; but I'd like to revive the
>>>"grand unified Zope installation and control" proposal that has been
>>>floated by many people (including me) in one form or another for some
>>>time.  Wikiwise, this would wrap up
>>>http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ZopeStartupProvisions and
>>>
>>>
> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/InstallationAndConfiguration,
> 
>>>at least.
>>>
>>>To summarize, this would involve
>>>
>>>- an expanded build program with an installation scheme that would allow
>>>multiple versions of Zope to be present on the same system
>>>
>>>- making that installation 'secure by default'
>>>
>>>- a registry of Zope installations and one of instances and their
>>>configuration settings
>>>
>>>- a 'zopectl' program or similar that would be able to start and stop
>>>instances
>>>
>>>- a 'zopeinstance' program or similar that would become the
>>>_recommended_ way of setting up Zope, by creating an INSTANCE_HOME
>>>
>>>It would be nice if
>>>
>>>- the same framework could apply to Zope 3, maybe taking care of that
>>>piece ahead of time
>>>
>>>I'm more than willing to head this up, though I question how long we
>>>have before 2.6 to do so.
>>>
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