[Zope] Re: Running more than one instance on windows often block each other

[Sune B. Woeller]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Sune B. Woeller]
> 
>>I will try to recreate the problem on other
>>flavours of windows asap. I will get back to you
>>later.
> 
> 
> Cool!  If you can, posting a self-contained program that demonstrates
> the problem is the best way to make progress.
> 
> 
>>I guess my reporting was a bit too quick, sorry:
> 
> 
> Not at all -- you did excellent detective work here!  It's
> appreciated.  The problem is that English descriptions are nearly
> always ambiguous, especially when trying to explain something
> complicated that other people haven't reported.  Posting a program
> removes all that guesswork:  it reproduces the problem for other
> people on other boxes, or it doesn't, and we learn something valuable
> either way; if it does fail for others, then they can help investigate
> _why_ it fails.  At the start, thoroughly demonstrating a problem
> exists is more important than guessing at what might be needed to worm
> around it.
> 
> 
>>I'm running python 2.3.5, (installed from windows binary).
>>Zope 2.7.7 (not necessary for the test scripts)
>>Windows XP Home SP2 (blush - my laptop came with that... ;) )
> 
> 
> Good -- thanks.  A pretty vanilla system, then.  I've heard that XP
> Home has "special" limitations on network capabilities, but don't know
> more than that; it's at least possible they're relevant.  I'm not sure
> that running multiple Zope instances on a laptop is a prime use case
> for Zope <wink>.

I consider it very usefull, and I can see nothing that should cause problems 
with that (well, except from the problem mentioned i this thread). Of course, I 
do not use the laptop as server - but for development purposes. I have around 
10-15 instances for varoius projects, quite often with 2 or 3 instances running 
at the same time.