[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/doc - TODO.txt:1.2
Chris McDonough
chrism@zope.com
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:24:08 -0400
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TODO.txt
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Commit TODO worked out in new-install-branch to trunk
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+The following is a TODO list dealing with installation and startup
+changes proposed for the Zope trunk. It is organized into these
+categories:
+
+ "BEFORE RELEASE OF ZOPE 2.7A" (items to do before the first alpha
+ release of Zope 2.7)
+
+ "BEFORE 2.7 FINAL" (things that need to be done before we're
+ finished, but not currently on the critical path)
+
+ "MAYBE NEVER BUT NICE TO HAVE" (items that are not on any critical
+ path)
+
+--------------------------------
+ BEFORE RELEASE OF ZOPE 2.7A
+--------------------------------
+
+Config file needs better inline docs
+
+ The Zope ZConfig config file has some inline docs. They need to be
+ completed. Additional docs may come as a result of writing a schema-to-HTML
+ translator.
+
+Make as many things defaultable as feasible
+
+ Maybe we can allow a config file in which everything is commented
+ out. We'll see.
+
+Write some more unit tests
+
+ Write unit tests for Zope.Startup packages.
+
+Update Zope distribution creation machinery
+
+ The current distribution-creation machinery will almost certainly
+ fail if it's not updated with knowledge of the new Zope installation
+ regime.
+
+Beautify output of "make install".
+
+ The output of make install includes some spurious warnings from
+ distutils.
+
+Zope.Startup.nt.NTService.py and INSTANCE_HOME/bin/ntservice.py need
+testing
+
+ These modules allow you to associate an NT service with a Zope
+ INSTANCE_HOME. Success means being able to invoke the ntservice.py
+ module to create an NT service which can successfully start and stop
+ a Zope instance on a per-instance-home basis.
+
+ Update: As of Jan. 13, this fails -- instance-home-based services
+ report failure on start (even though they start) and cannot be
+ stopped.
+
+What to do about envvars?
+
+ Envvars are still used "under the hood" in ZConfig handlers as the
+ result of particular configuration declarations in order to make
+ Zope do the right thing (e.g. INSTANCE_HOME, SOFTWARE_HOME,
+ DTML_REQUEST_AUTOQUOTE, SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINUTES and other envvars
+ are set in ZConfig handlers for their respective keys). But envvars
+ should not be used to try to configure Zope, as the handlers
+ overwrite existing envvars with prejudice. We need to come down on
+ one side or the other about envvars.. either they should be
+ respected at startup as they always have been or they should be
+ explicitly not respected. Currently they are not respected.
+
+ We need to communicate this decision to developers and update
+ doc/ENVIRONMENT.txt as necessary.
+
+win32-eventlog needs testing
+
+ The "win32-eventlog" log handler (which is creatable via the config
+ file) needs to be tested.
+
+Server construction errors need to be better
+
+ When a server is constructed, it attempts to bind to a port. If the
+ port cannot be bound, an error is raised. The error currently doesn't
+ include the port number, and should.
+
+Review impact of missing Data.fs.in
+
+ The branch install process doesn't copy the "Data.fs.in" file to an
+ instancehome/var directory. This file is the "initial" filestorage
+ for Zope that gets copied to "Data.fs" during installation in every
+ prior branch of Zope. This file is evil and must die at some point,
+ and most of the necessary code to set things up properly in the face
+ of an empty Data.fs already exists in OFS.Application.initialize.
+ Things seem to work fine without Data.fs.in but we should just give
+ it a bit of review to see what gets left out, if anything.
+
+ When we find that Data.fs.in isn't necessary, we need to remove it
+ from the HEAD.
+
+ XXX What is actually needed to verify that it isn't needed?
+
+ AAA The best way to do this is to write a unit test which verifies
+ that the default objects installed into a "new" ZODB when Zope
+ starts are present and working, and their content either matches
+ the content of what would have come from Data.fs.in or is "close
+ enough". The code that installs these default objects exists in
+ the initialize function within lib/python/OFS/Application.
+
+-----------------
+BEFORE 2.7 FINAL
+-----------------
+
+Review the Zope Book 2.6 Edition chapters and come up with revisions
+or at least create a Zope Trunk Install HowTo
+
+ The 2.6 edition Zope Book at
+ http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition has
+ three chapters which detail installation (Installing and Starting
+ Zope), maintenance (Maintaining Zope) and ZEO (Scalability and ZEO).
+ These chapters should be reviewed for inaccuracies with respect to
+ the forthcoming trunk changes and changes should be made "offline"
+ to allow a Zope Book 2.7 edition.
+
+ At least create a HowTo which summarizes the differences between
+ installing 2.6 and installing the trunk.
+
+------------------------------
+ MAYBE NEVER BUT NICE TO HAVE
+------------------------------
+
+ZConfig defaults
+
+ We deferred several issues that we recognized as areas for
+ improvement in ZConfig that might make it possible to avoid writing
+ nasty procedural code for default handling unnecessary
+ (e.g. Zope.Startup.handlers.root_handler). See
+ http://my.zope.com/CPM/CPM/issues/4 and
+ http://my.zope.com/CPM/CPM/issues/3. Not necessary for merge, but
+ useful to think about for future.
+
+
+RPM install should recompile .pycs
+
+ The RPM spec file (inst/Zope.spec.in) should delete and recompile
+ .pycs/.pyos during an RPM install to make sure tracebacks contain
+ real Zope filenames instead of filenames relative to the build
+ directory. Alternately the RPM install should not contain .pycs or
+ .pyos.
+
+ XXX Not clear why this is actually needed; importing a module causes
+ the __file__ to be updated with the right filename. A nice touch,
+ but not required.
+
+ AAA Is this a new Python feature or has it always been this way?
+ Tracebacks used to show the location of the .pyc where it had been
+ compiled, not where it actually lived.
+
+RPM install versioning scheme needs to be documented
+
+ The RPM builder has a versioning scheme via the generated Makefile
+ in order to allow for the install of multiple simultaneous versions
+ of Zope on a single system. This versioning scheme should be
+ documented.
+
+----------------------------------
+COMMUNITY CONCERNS (uncategorized)
+----------------------------------
+
+Status: Request for comment sent to the community:
+http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2003-March/018999.html
+Lots of discussion!
+
+ - need to be able to specify PRODUCTS_PATH (to extend the
+ path Zope looks for Products within)
+
+ - ZConfig is too complex when compared with envvar parsing.
+
+ - Somewhat unrelated, but the features of "debug mode" should be
+ disentangled from one another and specifiable individually.
+
+ - Need to support arbitrary storage types.
+
+ - ZOPE_TRUSTED_PROXIES envvar is not configureable via config file.
+
+ - REST_INPUT_ENCODING and REST_OUTPUT_ENCODING are not config-file
+ configurable
+
+ - DATETIME_FORMAT is not config-file configurable.
+
+ - Is ZEO_CACHE_TRACE configurable?
+
+ - Provide --swhome and ---with-python switch to mkzopeinstance, which will
+ allow folks to create an instance that points to particular (known)
+ Python versions and software homes.
+
+ XXX This doesn't make sense. mkzopeinstance is part of the
+ software home; if you want to use a different one, use the
+ mkzopeinstance from the software home you want to use. The same
+ goes for the Python to use; that's "built-in" to a software home.
+ Using a different Python doesn't make sense given that the software
+ home includes compiled modules.
+
+ AAA This is to service to-be-chrooted installs.
+
+ - zopectl debug (opens up a Python interpreter shell with the app
+ name bound to the root application object) and zopectl run
+ (execfiles a module with the app name bound to the root application
+ object).
+
+ - Explain how to set up and use a ZEO server using mkzeoinst
+ included in 2.7's ZEO.
+
+ (Use the installed bin/mkzeoinstance script; use --help for more
+ information.)
+
+ - Give ZConfig replacement access to the environment or shell
+ somehow. For instance, some folks use the same 'start' script in
+ all of their instances right now (under 2.6). The script does
+ things based on the value of an envvar that can be used to
+ distinguish the config values of the instance from other instances.
+ We could allow for the same sort of behavior E.g.:
+
+ %define HOSTNAME `hostname` (assuming `hostname` resolves to a hostname)
+
+ lockfile-name /var/lock/$HOSTNAME-lockfile