[Webware-devel] Improvement of launch scripts

2005-09-09 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Problem 1: The AppServer and AppServer.bat shell skripts do not work if they are not started from their containing directories. Particularly, I cannot used startproc to start the AppServer script. Suggestion for improvement: Add this to AppServer: cd $(dirname $0) Add this to AppServer.bat:

[Webware-devel] Another idea for MakeAppWorkDir

2005-09-09 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
The MakeAppWorkDir script has an option --cvsignore that creates appropriate .cvsignore files, so that for instance the Cache directory will be ignored when you store the created directory in a CVS repository. I think that is a usable feature, but many developers and Webware itself have moved

Re: [Webware-devel] beta cut postponed

2005-09-09 Thread Ian Bicking
Christoph Zwerschke wrote: Ian Bicking wrote: To me, Webware's lack of a conventional Python installation process has always been a serious problem. There's no reason to use Webware's distribution mechanism (which clearly is slow and error prone, which has a lot to do with the many-year

[Webware-devel] Re: Database utilities suite for Webware

2005-09-09 Thread Warren Smith
Christoph Zwerschke said: Warren, it would be also great if you could add your “DbConnectionPool” to the DBUtils suite, as another DB pooling module. DBConnectionPool uses a different approach for dealing with bad connections (by running an “expiration” thread), so it would be good to have it

[Webware-devel] Stylesheet propagation

2005-09-09 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
The Webware installer copies the stylesheet in the top level Docs folder to the Docs folder of all subpackages. Does anything speak against removing that propagation and using relative links pointing to the top folder instead? This would make the doco and doco creation process a bit simpler

Re: [Webware-devel] Stylesheet propagation

2005-09-09 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 9/9/05, Christoph Zwerschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Webware installer copies the stylesheet in the top level Docs folder to the Docs folder of all subpackages. Does anything speak against removing that propagation and using relative links pointing to the top folder instead? This would

Re: [Webware-devel] Stylesheet propagation

2005-09-09 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Chuck Esterbrook wrote: Agreed, but... Microsoft Windows. Hm, what's the problem with Microsoft Windows? I mean, except Microsoft Windows itself. -- Christoph --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September

Re: [Webware-devel] Stylesheet propagation

2005-09-09 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 9/9/05, Christoph Zwerschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck Esterbrook wrote: Agreed, but... Microsoft Windows. Hm, what's the problem with Microsoft Windows? I mean, except Microsoft Windows itself. It doesn't have links like the posix/unix file system does. (Windows has a poor