On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:58:08PM -0400, Fred Drake wrote: | On 6/30/05, Sidnei da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Gosh, that looks too nice to be true. I will try that out tomorrow and | > write out a how-to on zope.org if it works out. | | It is too good to be true; sorry. | | Well, it is true, but it's not what you're looking for. You can't use | it to extend the schema for Zope. You can use it to add new concrete | implementations for things that are allowed; the original use-case was | to allow things like new kinds of storage for the database.
Yeah, I can see two things of doing it by *abusing* zope.conf, one is abuse the 'server' abstract type and the other is to use the 'environment' directive, but then you can't specify the datatype. Oh, well. | I've spent a little time thinking about this issue, and have come up | with at least one way to deal with it (and %import would be used, in | part), but I've never been completely happy with the approaches. I would like to suggest something like what's done for Zope 3 with 'package-includes'. Then '<package-name>-schema.xml' would be included from 'zopeschema.xml' and '<product-name>-zope.conf' would be included from 'zope.conf'. Actually, maybe not even a special directory, but looking inside the Products directories for those files. But then there would be a chicken-and-egg problem because of the 'products' directive in zope.conf. Maybe a special directory is the best in this case. | Since using an additional configuration file is possible (and quite | easy in Zope 2, since the location of the instance is so easy to | discern, I'm not convinced it's actually important to support | embedding the configuration for 3rd-party components into zope.conf. | If you want something you can use now, using a product-specific | configuration file, with an appropriate schema, will do quite well. | It also doesn't require hacking (or monkey-patching) Zope or ZConfig, | so it would be easy to deploy in a variety of situations. Right, seems that's my only choice for the time being. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems, LLC. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )