[Zope-dev] Re: [ZODB-Dev] ZEO & product installation Q

[Toby Dickenson]

On 21 May 2002 11:25:07 -0400, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@zope.com> wrote:

>    Zope will not modify the Zope database during product installation
>    if the environment variable ZEO_CLIENT is set.
>
>    Normally, Zope ZEO clients should be run with ZEO_CLIENT set so
>    that product initialization is not performed.

There is a problem that Zope and ZEO are using this one environment
variable to control two different things.

There was a proposal to fix this in Zope, which currently hasnt got
very far:

http://collector.zope.org/Zope/299 =20

Any thoughts on that proposed solution?

Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com