[Zope-Coders] New API for Zope configuration info

[Andreas Jung]

--On Montag, 10. Februar 2003 17:09 -0500 "Fred L. Drake, Jr." 
<fred@zope.com> wrote:

>
> New API for Zope configuration info
> ===================================
>
> The problem
> -----------
>
> Zope 2 code uses a handful of "widely-known" values for configuration,
> as well as a host of less well known values.  Several values are found
> in environment variables and are only used by one portion of the
> code.  Others are used in several places, and are located in different
> ways.
>

I assume it will use the new ZConfig packages. Is there some documentation
available? What about backward compatibility (for all exisiting env vars?).
What is the suggest way to use this feature in exisiting Zope 
products/modules?

-aj