[Zope-dev] Zope 2.7 Timeline

[Andy McKay]

> Also the Plone Windows controller rocks, and I'd like to ship
> something like it with Zope itself.  But a) I don't know it's
> licensing disposition (we can't ship GPL'ed code with Zope AFAIK) and
> b) it will need to change a lot due to the install and config changes
> in 2.7+.

Im not trying to maintain the Controller any more, mostly because I dont 
really enjoy trying to faff with MFC code. I've tried to get a gui 
controller started using wxPython a few times, but ran out of steam 
before I get anywhere a few times.

Either way the Controller does too much work that is now done in 2.7, 
I'd like it to:

- talk to the tools in bin to create new instances (it tried to do its 
own thing)

- talk to ZEO

- read and write the ZConfig file

> So, anyway, if there's any way we can work together on the installer
> or controller stuff, I'd be very happy.  You know more about this shit
> than I do. ;-)

Likewise, when, how or what - I dont know.

> Here's what I know still need to do:
> 
>   - figure out how to get event/access log rotation to work (sigusr2
> definitely wont work ;-)
> 
>   - provide a better default config file for Windows (backslashes
> instead of slashes).
> 
>   - Log startup tracebacks when running as a service to the Windows
> event log.

Dont we use the logging module now? Can we just plug in the 
NTEventHandler? I haven't looked at 2.7 so guessing.
-- 
   Andy McKay
   http://www.agmweb.ca