[Zope-dev] Re: Zope Service on Windows

[Tres Seaver]

Mark Hammond wrote:
>>I just checked in how I finally got Zope 2.7.x to run as a service on
>>Windows again.
> 
> 
> See also http://collector.zope.org/Zope/1533 - this has a number of changes
> to make services much more reliable on Windows.  My patch includes your
> change, but along the lines of Tim's objection, mine compromises with:
> 
> +os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] = os.environ.get("PYTHONPATH", "") + ";" +
> SOFTWARE_HOME
> 
> My patches also have the killer feature of writing any Zope stdout to the
> Windows event log in the case of error - critical if you hope to see what
> the underlying error was.  The patch also allows for Zope to be terminated
> gracefully (rather than unconditionally terminating it as now), re-instates
> support for Windows NT, and allows for a complete, functioning pywin32 build
> to be used (including win32com etc).
> 
> Just-by-way-of-reminder ly,

+1 for landing Mark's patch as a prerequisite to fixing *any* 
Windows-service related bug in the future.

Tres.
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