[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: a wish list

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 13:48, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

>  > > My usual response has been that it can already be done reasonably
>  > > using something like:
>  > > 
>  > > %define topdir /some/path/to/the/top/of/my/tree
>  > > %define logdir $topdir/log
>  > > 
>  > > some-logfile   $logdir/interesting.log
>  > > other-logfile  $logdir/another.log
>  > 
>  > Which is essentially what I do now.
> 
> Have your users complained that it's too much?

Not yet, because there aren't any <wink>.

>  > That's the primary motivation, for sure.  The idea is that if ZConfig is
>  > going to be the configuration language that Mailman3 site admins use,
>  > I'd like to reduce to a minimum the number of options or lines of files
>  > they need to look at, decide about, and change.  If they can simply
>  > define a basedir and have all the defaults be defined in terms of that,
>  > it would be a bonus.
> 
> I don't know enough about Mailman3 configuration to know how what's
> being done in the config file or how many decisions the site admin
> needs to deal with.  Is there something for each list?

I'm hoping there won't.  I'd like the ZConfig stuff to define only
site-wide configuration stuff, like the ipaddress/port of your smtp
servers, the http port and interface for the web server, etc.  ZConfig
might be used for list config defaults, but I'm not yet sure about that.

-Barry