[Zope-Coders] RE: [ZC] 586/ 2 Resolve "start script not setting INSTANCE_HOME"

[Charlie Reiman]

Hmm... well, I don't know what to think of that. I do know that if you take
the 2.6b1 start script and change INST_HOME to INSTANCE_HOME, it works great
for in-place zopes and only requires retargeting of z2.py for separate
instances. I've never had to set SOFTWARE_HOME. Perhaps it is inferred
correctly within z2.py?

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> To: Charlie Reiman; mcdonc; klm; Brian; chrism; Caseman; _Resolved_
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> Subject: [ZC] 586/ 2 Resolve "start script not setting INSTANCE_HOME"
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> Issue #586 Update (Resolve) "start script not setting INSTANCE_HOME"
>  Status Resolved, Zope/bug medium
> To followup, visit:
>   http://collector.zope.org/Zope/586
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> = Resolve - Entry #2 by mcdonc on Sep 27, 2002 1:33 am
>
>  Status: Pending => Resolved
>
> Actually, the script should not set INSTANCE_HOME at all.  The
> default 'start' script is always meant to be run from a
> SOFTWARE_HOME.  If you need to run in an INSTANCE_HOME setup, you
> need to specify both SOFTWARE_HOME and INSTANCE_HOME in a
> (custom) 'start' script.
>
> The references to INST_HOME in this script have been around since
> Dec. 12, 2000.  I'm baffled by why this script exports INST_HOME.
>  It only does so if the Python version you're running is a 2.X
> version, otherwise it references 'PYTHONHOME' instead.  There's a
> cryptic comment in the code that generates the script something
> to the effect that "PYTHONHOME is bad under 2.X".   Shrug.
>
> INST_HOME appears nowhere else in the Zope source, so I've
> removed references to it from the script generator under the 2.6
> and trunk Zope branches.  The references won't appear in the
> start script anymore, hopefully preventing any confusion.
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
> - C
>
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> = Request - Entry #1 by Anonymous User on Sep 24, 2002 8:26 pm
>
> The start script as generated by make_instance sets INST_HOME,
> not INSTANCE_HOME. So new instances will end up use the old
> database. This is immediately obvious but it should be fixed.
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