[Zope-dev] Re: Zope Service on Windows

[Andreas Jung]

--On Freitag, 17. Dezember 2004 10:35 Uhr -0500 Tres Seaver 
<tseaver at zope.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I suggest we schedule that for 2.7.5. As I understood  Christian, the 
service
machinery is now working again (for 2.7.4). So we could add these
enhancements to 2.7.5.

Andreas