On Tuesday 25 September 2001 16:41, Adrian Hungate wrote:

I edit the registry... One of my many favourite pass-times, right up there with running out in traffic.

Seriously though, once an instance is configured, why would you want to change it? (Assuming you get it right that is)

Mostly the interface is for stopping/starting the server, accessing the log, accessing the management screen, adding a manager user (yes, those last two are buttons which just open a URL with the default browser), changing the emergency user password and generally reporting information about the instance. The "(Assuming you get it right that is)" is also spot on - people will do strange things, and we need a simple interface that we can walk them through on the phone, and also an interface that they're unlikely to cause damage with (as opposed to editing z2.py or the *gak* registry!) This interface is _specifically_ targetted at a "new breed" of zope user. Someone who was brought up on a diet of IIS or some other plug-n-play web server. Someone who just wants it to work, no registry editing, no config file editing. That's who this stuff is targetted at. I'd say that adding a multi-instance ability would be possible - we'd just have to be able to handle multiple config files. We're just not sure how it should be handled in the UI :) Richard