[Zope-dev] 2.7 installation

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
20 Jun 2003 10:56:07 -0400


On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 02:10, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
> On June 18, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > And Guido, for zdctl.
> 
> Will Zope use zdctl?

Zope does use zdctl.  It's what gets invoked when you run "zopectl".  I
need to degeneralize the zdctl invoked by Zope a bit in order to support
"zopectl debug" and "zopectl test" but it will be largely the same
(probably a subclass).

> It would be cool to have the same framework used to control individual
> instances (Zope or ZEO), and zopectl can become an external zdaemon
> instance manager (I'll call it z*ctl).  Zope and ZEO simply provide
> start hooks for zdaemon.
> 
> So, you configure a ZEO instance and a Zope instance, add those
> instances to a global configuration file, and ask z*ctl to start the
> instances (if you have z*ctl) or you start them individually with
> zdctl.py.

Sounds like a fun project... 

- C