[Zope-Coders] new zLOG

Chris McDonough chrism@ZOPE.COM
25 Nov 2002 12:51:59 -0500


This is pretty shortsighted considering how minor the change is that
needs to be made to support zLOG initialization in each application that
uses it.  If this is a BDFL edict, however, so be it.

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> The zLOG package is used in other places than Zope.  Most of these
> places either don't care about setuid, or have a different solution to
> the setuid problem.  Let's put the burden where it should be: if Zope
> wants to worry about not creating the logfile before the setuid()
> call, let Zope do something special.  For everyone else, the default
> behavior should be what it was: auto-initialize on import or on first
> LOG() call, I don't care, but no additional calls required.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)