Re: env var support for zc.buildout
Christian Theune <[email protected]>
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On 04/08/2010 03:01 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Christian Theune<[email protected]> wrote: >> I wonder what Jim thinks about the topic. > > I have mixed feelings. Accessing environment variables seems > reasonable on some level, however: > > - I'd worry about the choice of the virtual section name. "env" or > "environment" seems too likely to break existing buildouts. > > - I worry a bit about making buildout's "programming language" > even more sophisticated. Though so - same mixed feelings over here. :) > Florian, can you describe why you want to use environment variables in extends? The general reason I can see is "it works everywhere else", except that there's some bootstrapping problem involved at some point anyway. Can you use any variable expansion in the values given in the [buildout] section anyway? Christian -- Christian Theune · [email protected] gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
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