[Grok-dev] Re: an application installation script?

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
[snip]
>> It should be done somewhere between the end of the buildout and the 
>> first application startup to make this work.
> 
> I'm not sure what buildout has to do with it. Of course it happens 
> during the first application startup. That's why I think it should be a 
> setting in the app startup code/configuration. Which is the Pastedeploy 
> configuration file (called deploy.ini in zopeproject).

It depends on ones installation philosophy. If we assume the information 
is in the ZODB the end of the buildout process could get up the ZODB in 
the right way. If you assume we use with Paste, it's on the filesystem 
and you'd use that explicitly.

I don't have an immediate preference for either. The benefit of storing 
this configuration in the ZODB is that you could make a UI for it much 
more easily. This make sense for "beginner deployment" scenarios. We 
could probably also tackle this with a separate server startup script 
(or option) that always deploys the application you created with 
grokproject to "localhost:8080". This could then also do the right 
daemonizing and so on.

For advanced deployment scenarios it becomes important to store this 
information in the filesystem and to be able to lock down things.

Regards,

Martijn