[Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!

[Chris McDonough]

I'd suggest starting with the combination of Evan's zopemake and zctl
scripts.  One thing that zopemake could be extended with is an
autoconf-style "configure" that figures out where the appropriate version of
Python is, which C compiler to use, etc.

- C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Everitt" <paul@zope.com>
To: "Behrens Matt - Grand Rapids" <Matt.Behrens@Kohler.Com>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>; <zope-coders@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!


>
> +1, and I say that knowing that it means I have to help.  I'm willing to
> write the docs for whoever works on the code.
>
> A gentle reminder on some of the posts in this thread.  Please don't
> respond with "I'd really like <some good idea>."  Respond with "I'm
> willing to do the work for <some good idea>."  That's part of the point
> with Brian's note.
>
> You don't _have_ to do the code work.  If you write up the docs for
> <some good idea>, you've likely done most of the work.
>
> --Paul
>
> Behrens Matt - Grand Rapids wrote:
> > Brian Lloyd wrote:
> >
> >  > Let's get a discussion
> >
> >> started to define 2.6.
> >
> >
> > This isn't exciting by any means unless you're one of the people who
> > package Zope up for distribution, or maybe you're one of the people who
> > manage lots of little Zopes on one system; but I'd like to revive the
> > "grand unified Zope installation and control" proposal that has been
> > floated by many people (including me) in one form or another for some
> > time.  Wikiwise, this would wrap up
> > http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ZopeStartupProvisions and
> >
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/InstallationAndConfiguration,
> > at least.
> >
> > To summarize, this would involve
> >
> > - an expanded build program with an installation scheme that would allow
> > multiple versions of Zope to be present on the same system
> >
> > - making that installation 'secure by default'
> >
> > - a registry of Zope installations and one of instances and their
> > configuration settings
> >
> > - a 'zopectl' program or similar that would be able to start and stop
> > instances
> >
> > - a 'zopeinstance' program or similar that would become the
> > _recommended_ way of setting up Zope, by creating an INSTANCE_HOME
> >
> > It would be nice if
> >
> > - the same framework could apply to Zope 3, maybe taking care of that
> > piece ahead of time
> >
> > I'm more than willing to head this up, though I question how long we
> > have before 2.6 to do so.
> >
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