[Zope-Coders] DISCUSS: Let's make zctl official

Matthew T. Kromer matt@zope.com
Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:25:13 -0500


Paul Everitt wrote:

>
> Howdy.  It seems that a lot of insiders love to use zctl to administer 
> their Zope processes.  Unfortunately:
>
>   o There are a number of versions lying around.
>
>   o Documentation is scattered.
>
>   o Few people know about it.
>
> There are proposals in the fishbowl about it.  I think this would be 
> nice, bite-sized chunk for a committer to pick up and get into Zope.
>
> Casey picked up "Death to index_html" (or the aspect related to 
> configuring object creation, I believe).  Who wants to be second to 
> tackle a much-needed improvement in Zope?



Along with that, Matt Behrens at Kohler wants to extend startup to do a 
few extra things (like drop all privs and gain groups differently).

Can we coalesce this into a new "Zope Control Utility?"

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