[Zope-dev] breaking apart INSTANCE_HOME.

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Chris McDonough writes:
 > Actually,  both of these directories have historically worked in much
 > the same way as the Products package does.

Ok, well, that's still not hard to do; we just add the bootstrap
directories to each of the lists once we've read the config.

 > A software home may have (actually currently must have) an "import"
 > directory.  Zope currently slurps various TTW "examples" from a zexp
 > file in the software home import directory.  I'd really like to dump
 > this dependency, but it would take a bit of work.

Ah, that's right.  I keep trying to forget about that.

One approach may be to use the import mechanism but not the import
search mechanism for that.  So there's still a .zexp file in the
software, but it's not part of the general import/export support.

 > The Extensions directory... errr.. this should probably not be in a
 > software home anymore.  I can't think of anything that would break were
 > it to not be there anymore (besides products that depend on the physical
 > layout of the software home, which shouldn't exist).

So this one doesn't present a problem.  The default list will only
include the Extensions in the INSTANCE_HOME, and configuration will
override that if something else is desired.

 > Personally, I think we should just hardcode '/home/fred/zope/import'
 > into the core as the import directory and be done with it. ;-)

That's fine with me.  At least it won't be accessing *your* imports
directory.  ;-)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
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