setup.py (was Re: [Zope-Coders] RE: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/doc - INSTALL.txt:1.32)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 30 May 2002 15:48:42 -0400


> I like your work, but do you envision allowing people to run directly 
> from the source directory, as easily as they can today?

That's certainly a requirement in my case.

> Since you presumably intend to get rid of wo_pcgi.py, something else
> needs to create a script that can start and stop Zope from the
> source directory.

Why does something have to *create* that script?  It would be much
better if the script was part of the CVS tree IMO.

>   And I think the thing that creates that script has to work on both 
> Unix and Windows.

It would be acceptable if you had to use a different script on
Windows.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)