[Zope] Not enough options! (was Re: External Methods - Weirdness between two installations of Zope)

[Chris McDonough]

The place to add these kinds of features is in Zope 2.7.  It is a fairly
big job to subdivide them but possible.  You may want to wait until the
installer stuff is merged to do this (which may be a few weeks).

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 20:42, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:42:43AM +0000, Ian Sealy wrote:
> > One of the effects of debug mode is that Zope reloads external methods
> > automatically if they've changed on the filesystem. For other effects,
> > see:
> > 
> > 	http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/debuggingzope
> 
> 
> <rant mode="tangent">
> 
> Is it just me, or is anyone else really irritated by 
> how many things are toggled by Z_DEBUG_MODE?
> 
> For example, I want my production site to not display
> tracebacks to users, but I *don't* want it to detach from
> the terminal - I agree with the author of daemontools
> that a daemon which insists on running in the background is broken.
> If I wanted to run it in the background, 
> **** I would put it in the background. ****  
>   
> I looked into patching z2.py to add some command line switches
> (e.g. --html-tracebacks, --foreground, --auto-refresh ...)
> and then the current -D could just invoke a combination of other switches.
> 
> But it looks like a pretty involved job to patch zope
> to separate out all the stuff that's lumped in as "debugging". 
> It looks to me like changes would have to be made
> all over the place.  Grrrr.
> 
> </rant>
-- 
Chris McDonough <chrism@zope.com>
Zope Corporation