[Zope-dev] Re: ZConfig change breaks Zope 2 and Zope 3

[yuppie]

Derrick Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:28:55PM +0200, yuppie wrote:
> | Hi!
> | 
> | On Windows, this 15 months old change in ZConfig sets the default 
> | hostname for inet_address to 'localhost':
> | 
> |   http://svn.zope.org/ZConfig/?rev=376&view=rev
> | 
> | I have no idea why this was changed, the checkin message is not very 
> | helpful: "fix the default hostname for address datatypes for Windows"
> 
> | Any comments?
> 
> Search the list archives for a discussion of why that was changed.
> IIRC it is due to quirks in Windows' network libraries -- a test was
> failing because the system API to query the identity of the socket
> did something funny with 'localhost' vs. '127.0.0.1' and that caused
> the comparison in the test to fail even though there was no actual
> defect.
> 
> OTOH, after a quick look at the referenced defects and archived emails
> I may be remembering something else.
> 
> Anyways, hopefully my memory will help you.  If not, well that's all I
> can offer.

I couldn't find anything in the archives, but Tim's Entry #5 in

   http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1728

might explain the change in ZConfig. It seems to work around an issue 
with connect() on Windows.

But I still believe it was wrong to change the 'inet_address' datatype 
in ZConfig.

Cheers, Yuppie