[Zope3-Users] Buildout bug?

[David Pratt]

David Pratt wrote:
> Hi Jim. I think ${name} or ${part} would be good.
> 
> Sorry for poor example. baz in prev example could be a version or other 
> differentiating information to form a path name. Here's a better example 
> though there is many places this could be used.
> 
> extra-options = --datadir=${software:prefix}/share/${name}
> 
> BTW, can you think of anyway to work around the first issue for buildout 
> part. For substitution to work, could buildout part have its own dict as 
> a data source for substitution prior to files being configured as a 
> special case). Then after config do the routine substitution. So you 
> could have something like the following. Thing is this is a pretty small 
> example and when you get a number of configurations going with long 
> paths, well its sort of looks ugly too, especially if you are using urls 
> or paths that may be the same.

Sorry, should have clarified that it is the scenario with the long long 
paths or urls that is undesirable. The first case below represents what 
I'd rather see which keeps it fairly clean.

> 
> [buildout]
> develop = .
> parts = somepart anotherpart
> etc = p1=/somewhere/in/my/filesystem
>       p2=/just/another/somewhat/long/path
> extends = ${etc:p1}/bar.cfg
>           ${etc:p1}/smallbar.cfg
>           ${etc:p1}/bigbar.cfg
>           ${etc:p2}/baz.cfg
> 
> contrast this with the following without the prefixes:
> 
> [buildout]
> develop = .
> parts = somepart anotherpart
> extends = /somewhere/in/my/filesystem/bar.cfg
>           /somewhere/in/my/filesystem/smallbar.cfg
>           /somewhere/in/my/filesystem/bigbar.cfg
>           /just/another/somewhat/long/path/baz.cfg
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> 
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:59 PM, David Pratt wrote:
>>> One other thing that I have not yet seen is using the part name 
>>> within the part which would be useful. Something like:
>>>
>>> [foobar]
>>> baz = bar
>>> log = /some/path/${foobar:?}-${foobar:baz}.log
>>
>>
>> I don't follow the example.  I can thing of perhaps similar examples:
>>
>>   log = /some/path/${name}-something.log
>>
>> where ${name} refers to the part name.  I definitely want to do 
>> something like this.  I'm not sure what syntax should be used.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Fulton
>> Zope Corporation
>>
>>
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