[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Proposed installation changes for review

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Very good!  But in that case, shouldn't the new Zope 2.7 install and 
> > startup stuff support it?
> 
> It does.  It's just that the default setup is still to use a non-ZEOd
> FileStorage for your main database.  But you can change options in the
> config file to make it use a ZEO ClientStorage.  This is in lieu of of
> requiring you to edit custom_zodb.py as you needed to do in 2.6 and
> prior.
> 
> It's clear that the Zope source distro should support the use of
> ClientStorage "out of the box".  It's not however so clear that the Zope
> source distro should make it to set up a ZEO server (although it does
> happen to include the necessary files to run a ZEO server too, it
> doesn't include a 'zeoctl' or a zeo.conf, etc).

Chris, have you looked at ZEO/mkzeoinst.py?  It uses a somewhat
simpler approach than the new Zope setup, but it creates a zeoctl
script and a zeo.conf configuration file.

> That's not to say that it shouldn't be easy to set up a ZEO server, but
> that making it easy should probably the job of a package other than Zope
> proper.  The right thing to do would be to package up a ZEO server
> installer separate from Zope 2.7 with a similar kind of buildout,
> support files, and configuration file.  At least that's been my idea so
> far.

Not needed; it's all there (though far simpler in approach than the
Zope installer).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)