Re: env var support for zc.buildout

Christian Theune <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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