Re: Extending Zope2 bin/instance run
Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.devel |
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On 9/3/10 10:27 , Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Wichert Akkerman<[email protected]> wrote: >> I have noticed that now that we are almost exclusively using eggs to >> distribute our software using "bin/instance run" has become difficult: often >> the script you want to run is located inside an egg which makes to path to >> it hard to predict. This is not the most user friendly command: >> >> bin/instance run eggs/my.package-*/my/package/script.py > > You could also expose your script as a console_script and thus get it into bin/. But then I'ld have to figure out where the zope2.conf is and run all the undocumented Zope startup magic, all of which bin/instance gets for free. >> I am considering to modify bin/instance run to check if its first argument >> is a filesystem path, and if not consider the argument to be a dotted name >> of a callable which should be invoke. That way backwards compatibility >> remains, but you can now also do this: >> >> bin/instance run my.package.script.main > > I don't see any reason why we shouldn't do this. Ok. >> I am not sure if this is best done in plone.recipe.zope2instance or >> Zope2.Startup.zopectl. They have differing versions of ZopeCmd. Perhaps the >> plone.recipe.zope2instance code should be merged into Zope2's original as >> well? > > The code in the zope2instance recipe has diverged both in > implementation and semantics from the original Zope2 code. I tried to > push back some of that in 2.11 while porting the Windows service > support code over. But there's again a lot of other changes. > > Given that this code is completely untested except for people actually > using it on different platforms I'm not personally going to merge the > codebase any further. But anyone else is free to do so given they test > the modified code under all supported platforms and especially > Windows. I can't test under Windows, so how can we proceed to make any changes at all there? Wichert. _______________________________________________ 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 )