On 04/08/2010 03:01 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Christian Theune<ct@gocept.com> 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 · ct@gocept.com 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