[Zope-dev] Zope 2.12.2 SyntaxError on installation

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:59:07PM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >> Well. You didn't specify a database file in your zope,conf it seems.
> >> Without a declaration, there's no database.
> > 
> > Makes sense, in a rather user-unfriendly way.  May I suggest the
> > documentation be amended to supply a closer-to-working zope.conf?
> > I'm referring to this bit:
> > 
> >   http://docs.zope.org/zope2/releases/2.12/INSTALL.html#buildout-instances
> > 
> > where I didn't notice the word "starting" in "Create a Zope configuration
> > file starting as follows".
> 
> Hmm, well, a full zope.conf is a bit bloated to go in those docs, which 
> is why I worded it the way I did...

Is 46 lines too much?  That's how much it takes to have

  python
  instancehome
  default-publisher-encoding # hm, what's this?  first time I see one
  <eventlog>
  <logger access>
  <http-server>
  <zodb_db main>
  <zodb_db temporary>

with a couple of %defines and comments.

Or we could put a sample zope.conf somewhere on the web (heck, in svn is
fine, using those nice *checkout* urls we've already used for
downloading buildout's bootstrap.py or the Zope 2.12.2 versions.cfg).

It'd be even better if there was a command I could run to generate an
up-to-date default zope.conf, like mkzopeinstance does.  Is there one?
Maybe there's a place for "bin/zopectl init" that would mkdir etc var log
and write a default etc/zope.conf?  (Thanks to whoever came up with
"bin/zopectl adduser", BTW, much appreciated!)


Now the "using buildout" section of INSTALL.rst leaves the user to write
one completely from scratch without any tool support or even a link to
documentation, and I'd like to fix this in case I have to set up a Zope
2.x instance ever again ;-)

Cheers!
Marius Gedminas
-- 
http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3 consulting and development
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