[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/doc - TODO.txt:1.1.2.2

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fred@zope.com
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:57:42 -0500


Update of /cvs-repository/Zope/doc
In directory cvs.zope.org:/tmp/cvs-serv28831

Modified Files:
      Tag: new-install-branch
	TODO.txt 
Log Message:
Miscellaneous small updates and clarifications.


=== Zope/doc/TODO.txt 1.1.2.1 => 1.1.2.2 ===
--- Zope/doc/TODO.txt:1.1.2.1	Tue Feb 25 17:10:12 2003
+++ Zope/doc/TODO.txt	Wed Feb 26 10:57:41 2003
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
   defaults for most things via default= in ZConfig schema and
   procedural code in ZConfig "handlers".  We would optimally like the
   default Zope config file to be able to be "empty" and still have
-  Zope work.  This is currently not the case (software_home and
-  instance_home are required keys).
+  Zope work.  This is currently not the case (instancehome is a
+  required key).
 
 Replace ZCtlLib/zopectl with zdctl variant
 
@@ -43,16 +43,19 @@
       be capable of reading the Zope config file to find out the
       things it needs to know (logfile placement comes to mind).
 
-    - zdctl/runsrvr doesn't do Windows.  It would be nice to have a
+    - zdctl/zdrun doesn't do Windows.  It would be nice to have a
       zopectl on Windows but not strictly necessary.  If there is no
       zopectl on Windows, we will need to spell this out in the docs.
       We will also need the ntservice.py module to issue different
       commands to start and stop the service.
 
+  Status:  A simple version has been implemented, but it does not yet
+  address the first issue above.
+
 Deal with command-line-specified overrides to configuration values
 
   It is currently not possible to override config file-specifed values
-  by using arguments to zctl or zope.py.  This will be required in
+  by using arguments to zopectl or runzope.  This will be required in
   reality.  There is a bunch of code that anticipates this possibility
   in zope.py and Zope.Startup.ZctlLib.py (anything that mentions
   "overrides" or "getSchemaKeys" is likely aiming to deal with this),
@@ -60,6 +63,11 @@
 
   XXX This was done somewhat via a cmdline.py module in Zope/Startup
   but needs to be replaced with zdoptions.
+
+  Status:  ZConfig + zdoptions now provides a -X option to allow
+  setting a ZConfig value from the command line, but this is still
+  limited.  The "legacy" command line options provided by Zope 2.6
+  have not yet been implemented.
 
 Write some unit tests