[Zope-Coders] ZEO install/runtime issues fixed

[Richard Jones]

On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 11:43 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
> The various schema components (component.xml) in
> ZODB, ZServer, and zLOG, as well as the master schema in Zope.Startup
> (zopeschema.xml) are the best sources of documentation for the config
> file at the moment.

Could I suggest that ZConfig spawn a feature that spits out the config 
schema as plain-text or HTML? I believe there's enough information in 
there to be able to generate a "template" config file from the schema, 
akin to what's in the skel/etc/zope.conf.in (minus the <<bits>> of 
course). The HTML would be really nice - auto-documenting the schemas 
would be a big plus.

On a related note, the zconfig command-line script is currently broken 
in the "installed" Zope tree due to path issues. I'd like to move it to 
the same scheme as the other scripts, where the bin/zconfig script is a 
thin generated wrapper that imports and runs the script functionality 
from the ZConfig lib. Or we could mutate the zconfig script as it's 
installed. Either way, something needs to be done.

In then end though, I can't seem to get a zeoclient section working 
using the zope.conf file. The following seems to be ignored:

<zodb>
   <zeoclient>
     server localhost:8082
   </zeoclient>
</zodb>

That is, my ZEO server doesn't receive a connection, and the client 
ends up with a local FileStorage being created. What I've got above 
_seems_ to be what I should put in there - after reading the various 
schema xml files, the ZConfig doc PDF and the ZConfig source code to 
figure what the socket-address value should be ... I still have no idea 
where the <zodb> section name comes from in the schema though, and 
would've been totally lost there if it wasn't for hints from other 
places like Chris' email :)


> I'm not sure about command-line options...

Surely they're defined somewhere... I can't even unravel _that_ much :)


    Richard