[Zope-dev] Status of ZopeStartupProvisions?

[Richard Jones]

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 16:12, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> >>> "R. David Murray" wrote
> >
> > I wasn't aware of that Wiki, or of zctl.py until after I wrote something
> > of my own along these lines:  a 'zopectl' script that has a slightly
> > different design objective than zctl.py.  zctl.py seems to be oriented
> > primarily toward managing ZEO instances.  zopectl is oriented toward
> > managing multiple INSTANCE_HOME setups running on the same box
> > (eg: production and test instances, migration instances, or indeed
> > multiple zope-instance-per-virthost virthosts).
> >
> > You'll find it at http://www.zope.org/Members/rdmurray/zopectl.
>
> I'll have to have a look at it - I've built my own tool to manage
> multiple ZEO instances across multiple hosts, as well as allowing upgrades
> from development -> internal test -> external test -> production
> along with starting up temporary servers and frobbing loadbalancers to
> make sure upgrades are transparent to the end users. This is probably a
> tad overkill for most people, though.

Actually, I think it might be beneficial for people to describe, however 
briefly, how they do their testing. Migration of code to test servers, that 
sort of thing...


    Richard