[Zope-ZEO] ZEO patches for NT

[Jim Fulton]

Jeffrey Kunce wrote:
> 
> >> 3)  In smac.py, replace line 90:
> >>     import asyncore, string, struct, zLOG, sys, Acquisition
> >> with these two lines:
> >>     from ZServer.medusa import asyncore
> >>     import string, struct, zLOG, sys, Acquisition
> 
> >I don't want to introduce a dependency on ZServer.
> 
> I just noticed that zeo\start.py attempts to import asyncore from ZServer first:
> 
>     try:
>         from ZServer.medusa import asyncore
>         sys.modules['asyncore']=asyncore
>     except: pass
> 
>   --Jeff

Right. This is a necessary hack. I consider start.py to be somewhat 
of an appendage, and am wiling to tolerate the dependency there. I 
don't want it it the core ZEO code.  

Note that I *should* be able to just copy asyncore to the ZEO 
package, however, asyncore relies on mutable global variales. :(
It's not enough that ZEO get the right version of asyncore.
All parts of an application must actually use the *same* 
instantiation of the asynore module. This causes alot of
headaches.

Jim

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