[Zope3-Users] Re: Getting current user and current user's group in a buildout script

[Martin Aspeli]

Derek Richardson wrote:
> So, is there an easy way to do it? I know I can write a recipe, but a 
> recipe seems heavyweight for this. It seems to me that access to these 
> two values should be built into buildout as implicit variables. Is this 
> contrary to the lightweight, pluggable design philosophy?

What's the use case here? I can't think of many good uses for something 
that's going to vary depending on who's running the buildout.

Secondly, buildout and at least the recipes we like to promote are 
cross-platform. This may not be as easy to achieve on Windows.

Thirdly, users can be in multiple groups, so at least you'd need a list, 
which may not lend itself so well to the standard way of using variables 
in buildout.

Martin

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