[Zope3-dev] Missing environment and configuration

[Jim Fulton]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> In Zope 2, we had excess of configuration options and environment
> variables.

How did you have access to configuration options?

> In Zope 3, there seems to be no environment variables used, and worse,
> ZConfig options object seems to be discarded after initial
> configuration, so there's no way to find out simple stuff like
> 'where is my INSTANCE_HOME'.

In my recent aborted proposal:

   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ZConfigAndOtherFormatsForZCML

I suggested registering the options object as a utility.

> Is that by design or just an oversight?

We didn't need it.

Jim

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