[ZCM] [ZC] 1487/ 7 Wontfix "Mount-Points: documentation incomplete, behaviour surprising"

Issue #1487 Update (Wontfix) "Mount-Points: documentation incomplete, behaviour surprising"
 Status Wontfix, Zope/bug medium
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= Wontfix - Entry #7 by ajung on Jan 13, 2007 6:27 am

 Status: Accepted => Wontfix


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= Comment - Entry #6 by efge on Sep 26, 2004 5:12 pm

On the contrary, in my use cases having real_path default to virtual_path is exactly what I want: It means that if I see the mounted storage directly, on its own, then the would-be-mounted objects still have the same paths.

So the default makes sense for me, and it does not for you. We can't both win :-)

Proposing to close this entry.
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= Comment - Entry #5 by tim_one on Sep 5, 2004 11:29 am

Sorry, Andreas, I don't know anything about mount points.  Shane or Jim are the best hopes for that.
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= Comment - Entry #4 by ajung on Sep 5, 2004 10:44 am

SVN trunk: updated the docs in zopeschema.xml for the extended notation. 

No idea about the default value '/'...maybe Tim or some other ZODB guru can comment on this.
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= Comment - Entry #3 by ajung on Sep 5, 2004 10:44 am

SVN trunk: updated the docs in zopeschema.xml for the extended notation. 

No idea about the default value '/'...maybe Tim or some other ZODB can comment on this.
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= Assign - Entry #2 by ajung on Sep 4, 2004 11:59 pm

 Status: Pending => Accepted

 Supporters added: ajung


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= Request - Entry #1 by d.maurer on Sep 1, 2004 6:42 am

The "mount-point" documentation says:

   The mount point is the slash-separated path to which this database will be mounted within the Zope application server.

This is at least incomplete. In fact, the mount-point spec has the form "virtual_path [: real_path]". "virtual_path" describes the path in the mounting Zope instance and "real_path" the path in the mounted storage. Furthermore,
"real_path" allows a special syntax to specify a non-standard root.

Unfortunately, the default "real_path" is equal to "virtual_path". If "virtual_path" is non-trivial, this
leads to a very strange (and mount position dependent)
structure in the storage.

At least, the documentation needs to be completed.

If possible, "real_path" should get a more senseful
default value. Unfortunately, the most natural
value "/" will not work. Thus, maybe, it is not possible.
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